Philo Judaeus De Abrahamo 29

ed. Leopold Cohn

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[29] μάρτυρες δὲ τοῦ λεχθέντος αἱ ἐν ἡμῖν δυνάμεις·
αἱ μὲν γὰρ ἓξ τὸν ἄπαυστον καὶ συνεχῆ πόλεμον ἐν γῇ καὶ θαλάττῃ συγκροτοῦσιν, αἵ τε πέντε αἰσθήσεις καὶ ὁ προφορικὸς λόγος, αἱ μὲν πόθῳ τῶν αἰσθητῶν, ὧν ἐὰν μὴ τυγχάνωσιν, ἀνιῶνται, ὁ δ’ ἀχαλίνῳ στόματι μυρία τῶν ἡσυχαστέων ἐκλαλῶν·

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.) — 29 focus

[29] And a proof of what I have here asserted may be found in the powers which exist in us; for six of those powers, namely the five outward senses and uttered speech, stir up continued and ceaseless war, both by sea and land, some of them doing so from a desire for the objects of the outward senses, which if they cannot obtain they are grieved, and the last by divulging with unbridled mouth numbers of things which ought to be buried in silence.

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