Philo Judaeus, De Abrahamo, ed. Leopold Cohn, 269

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[269] καθάπερ γὰρ οἱ μὲν δι’ ὀλισθηρᾶς ὁδοῦ βαδίζοντες ὑποσκελίζονται καὶ πίπτουσιν, οἱ δὲ διὰ ξηρᾶς καὶ λεωφόρου ἀπταίστῳ χρῶνται πορείᾳ, οὕτως οἱ διὰ τῶν σωματικῶν μὲν καὶ τῶν ἐκτὸς τὴν ψυχὴν ἄγοντες οὐδὲν ἀλλ’ ἢ πίπτειν αὐτὴν ἐθίζουσιν —
ὀλισθηρὰ γὰρ ταῦτά γε καὶ πάντων ἀβεβαιότατα —, οἱ δὲ διὰ τῶν κατὰ τὰς ἀρετὰς θεωρημάτων ἐπὶ θεὸν σπεύδοντες ἀσφαλῆ καὶ ἀκράδαντον ὁδὸν εὐθύνουσιν, ὡς ἀψευδέστατα φάναι, ὅτι ὁ μὲν ἐκείνοις πεπιστευκὼς ἀπιστεῖ θεῷ, θεῷ. ὁ δ’ ἀπιστῶν ἐκείνοις πεπίστευκε θεῷ.

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.) — 269 focus

[269] For as men who are going along a slippery road stumble and fall, but they who proceed by a dry, and level, and plain path, journey on without stumbling; so also those men who are conducting their soul through the road of bodily and external good things are only accustoming it to fall; for these things are full of stumbling and the most insecure of all. But they who by those speculations which are in accordance with virtue, hasten towards God, are guiding their souls in a safe and untroubled path. So that we may say with the most absolute truth, that the man who trusts in the good things of the body disbelieves in God, and that he who distrusts them believes in him.

Philo Judaeus De Abrahamo 269

ed. Leopold Cohn

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