Philo Judaeus, De Abrahamo, ed. Leopold Cohn, 256

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[256] τοιαύτην γὰρ ἀποβαλὼν κοινωνὸν τοῦ σύμπαντος βίου, οἵαν ἔδειξεν ὁ λόγος καὶ μηνύουσιν οἱ χρησμοί, τῆς λύπης ἐπαποδυομένης ἤδη καὶ κατὰ τῆς ψυχῆς κονιομένης ὥσπερ ἀθλητὴς ἐπεκράτησε ῥώσας καὶ θαρσύνας εὖ μάλα τὸν ἀντίπαλον φύσει τῶν παθῶν λογισμόν, ᾧ συμβούλῳ
παρὰ πάντα τὸν βίον χρώμενος τότε διαφερόντως ἠξίωσε πείθεσθαι τὰ βέλτιστα παραινοῦντι καὶ συμφέροντα.

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.) — 256 focus

[256] For when Abraham had lost such a partner of his whole life, as our account has shown her to have been, and as the scriptures testify that she was, he still like a wrestler prevailed over the grief which attacked him and threatened to overwhelm his soul; strengthening and encouraging with great virtue and resolution, reason, the natural adversary of the passions, which indeed he had always taken as a counsellor during the whole of his life; but at this time above all others, he thought fit to be guided by it, when it was giving him the best and most expedient advice.

Philo Judaeus De Abrahamo 256

ed. Leopold Cohn

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