Philo Judaeus De Abrahamo 28

ed. Leopold Cohn

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[28] ἑπόμενος δ’ αὐτὸς αὑτῷ καὶ τὴν ἑβδόμην,
ἣν Ἑβραῖοι σάββατα καλοῦσιν, ἀνάπαυσιν ὀνομάζει, οὐχ, ὡς οἴονταί τινες, ὅτι δι’ ἓξ ἡμερῶν τῶν συνήθων ἔργων ἀπείχετο τὸ πλῆθος, ἀλλ’ ὅτι τῷ ὄντι ὁ ἕβδομος ἀριθμὸς ἔν τε τῷ κόσμῳ καὶ ἐν ἡμῖν αὐτοῖς ἀεὶ ἀστασίαστος καὶ ἀπόλεμος καὶ ἀφιλόνεικος καὶ εἰρηνικώτατος ἁπάντων ἀριθμῶν ἐστι.

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.) — 28 focus

[28] And in strict consistency with himself, the lawgiver also calls the seventh day "rest," which the Hebrews call "the sabbath;" not as some persons fancy, because after six days the multitude was restrained from its habitual employments, but because in real truth, the number seven is both in the world and in ourselves free from seditions and from wars, and is of all the numbers that which is the most averse to contention, and the greatest lover of peace.

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