Philo Judaeus, De Abrahamo, ed. Leopold Cohn, 261

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[261] εἶτ’ οὐ στέγοντες ἐν ἑαυτοῖς τὰ τῆς ἀρετῆς αὐτοῦ μεγέθη καὶ κάλλη — πάντα γὰρ ἦν ἐξαίρετα — προσελθόντες ἐξεφώνησαν p. 38 Μ. „βασιλεὺς παρὰ θεοῦ εἶ σὺ ἐν ἡμῖν“ (Gen. 23, 6), ἀληθέστατα λέγοντες· αἱ μὲν γὰρ
ἄλλαι βασιλεῖαι πρὸς ἀνθρώπων καθίστανται, πολέμοις καὶ στρατείαις καὶ κακοῖς ἀμυθήτοις, ἅπερ ἀντεπιφέρουσιν ἀλληλοκτονοῦντες οἱ δυναστειῶν ἐφιέμενοι, πεζὰς καὶ ἱππικὰς καὶ ναυτικὰς δυνάμεις ἐπιτειχίζοντες· τὴν δὲ τοῦ σοφοῦ βασιλείαν ὀρέγει θεός, ἣν παραλαβὼν ὁ σπουδαῖος οὐδενὶ μὲν αἴτιος γίνεται κακοῦ, πᾶσι δὲ τοῖς ὑπηκόοις ἀγαθῶν κτήσεως
ὁμοῦ καὶ χρήσεως, εἰρήνην καὶ εὐνομίαν καταγγέλλων.

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.) — 261 focus

[261] And then, not concealing in their own minds their ideas of the greatness and beauty of his virtue, for it was all admirable, they approached him and addressed him thus:—"Thou art a king from God among us." ¹ Speaking most truly, for all other kingdoms are established by man by means of wars, and military expeditions, and indescribable evils, which those persons who aim at power inflict mutually on one another, slaying one another, and raising up vast forces of infantry, and cavalry, and fleets. But the kingdom of the wise man is bestowed upon him by God; and the virtuous man receiving it is not the cause of evil to any one, but is rather the author to all his subjects of the ² acquisition and also of the use of good things, proclaiming to them peace and obedience to the law.

Philo Judaeus De Abrahamo 261

ed. Leopold Cohn

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