Philo Judaeus De Abrahamo 251

ed. Leopold Cohn

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[251] πρὸς δὲ τὸ ἀνύποπτον τῆς ζηλοτυπίας ἐμήν, εἰ βούλει, θεράπαιναν ἀγαγοῦ, τὸ μὲν σῶμα δούλην, ἐλευθέραν δὲ καὶ εὐγενῆ τὴν διάνοιαν, ἧς ἐκ πολλῶν χρόνων πεῖραν ἔλαβον καὶ βάσανον, ἀφ’ ἧς
ἡμέρας τὸ πρῶτον εἰς τὴν ἐμὴν οἰκίαν ἤχθη, γένος μὲν Αἰγυπτίαν, τὴν δὲ προαίρεσιν Ἑβραίαν.

De Abrahamo. Philo Judaeus. ed. Leopold Cohn. Germany. 2014.

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

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De Abrahamo (Greek) (Philo Judaeus. Opera quae supersunt, Volume 4. Cohn, Leonard, editor. Berlin: Reimer, 1902.)

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On the Life of the Wise Man made perfect by Instruction or, on the Unwritten Law, that is to say, on Abraham First1KGreek (The works of Philo Judaeus, the contemporary of Josephus, Volume 2. Yonge, C. D., translator. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1854.) — 251 focus

[251] "And that you may have no suspicion of any jealousy on my part, take, if you will, my own handmaid to wife; who is a slave indeed as to her body, but free and noble as to her mind; whose good qualities I have for a long time proved and experienced from the day when she was first introduced into my house, being an Egyptian by blood, and a Hebrew by deliberate choice.

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