Philo Judaeus, De Abrahamo, ed. Leopold Cohn, 40

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[40] ἐπεὶ γὰρ ἀδικημάτων φορὰν ἤνεγκεν ὁ χρόνος ἐκεῖνος καὶ πᾶσα χώρα καὶ ἔθνος καὶ πόλις καὶ οἰκία
καὶ ἕκαστος ἰδίᾳ πονηρῶν ἐπιτηδευμάτων ἀνεπέπληστο, πάντων ἑκουσίως καὶ ἐκ προνοίας ὡς ἐν ἀγῶνι περὶ τῶν ἐν τῷ διαμαρτάνειν πρωτείων ¹ ἁμιλλωμένων — μετὰ σπουδῆς γὰρ ἁπάσης ἐφιλονείκουν, ἑκάστου τὸν πλησίον μεγέθει κακίας ὑπερβαλεῖν ἐπειγομένου καὶ μηδὲν παραλείποντος τῶν

De Abrahamo. Philo Judaeus. ed. Leopold Cohn. Germany. 2014.

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

Current edition First1KGreek

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.) — 40 focus

[40] for as that time bore an abundant crop of injustice and impiety, and so every country, and nation, and city, and house, and every separate individual was full of wicked practises, all men of free will and of deliberate purpose, as if in an arena, living with one another for the first rank in iniquity, and strove with all possible zeal and rivalry, every one seeking to surpass his neighbour in the magnitude of his wickedness, and failing in nothing which might render life blameable and accursed.

Notes on the current edition

De Abrahamo

1.
1 μέντοι om. Arm τοιαύταις F
2 ἦν om. ΒΕΚ αὐτοῦ codd.: αὑτοῦ v
3 καθάπαξ cocld.: καθάπαν voluit Mang.
4 γεγονότων om. Arm
5 οἲ] ἢ Α ἀνταγώνιστον ’P
7 προνομίας] προνοίας BEK ἀλλὰ Α
8 μοχθηρὰ ἐπιτηδεύματα BEK Aim: ἐπιτηδεύματα μοχθηρά ceteri οὐ περιπεσόντες εἰς μοχθηρά ἐπιτηδεύματα Arm 8.
9 ἀλλ’—περιπεσόντες om. Arm
9 καλῶν] ὅλων Arm
10 θαυμασιώτατοι BEK: θαυμαστότατοι ceteti ἄνδρες Κ: οἱ ἄνδρες BE Arm, ἄνθρωποι ceteri
11 καὶ εὐγενέσιν om. Arm 12.
13 καὶ αὐτοδίκαιον ἀσπαζόμενοι BE)
13 θαυμάσιος BEK: θαυμαστὸς ceteri καθ’ ἑαυτὸν F, καταυτὺν C
16 αὐτὰ BEK: ταῦτα ceteri
18 ἐπειδὴ F γὰρ οm. Arm ἀδικημάτων BEK Arm: ἀδικημάτων καὶ ἀσεβημάτων ceteri
19 ὁ χρόνος ἐκεῖνος BEK Arm: ἐκεῖνος ὁ ἕκαστος ceteri καὶ πόλις καὶ ἔθνος transp. BEK 19.
20 καὶ οἰκία καὶ ἕκαστος ἰδίᾳ om. Arm
20 ἀνεπέπληστο BE, ἀναπέπληστο K: ἐπέπληστο ceteri πάντως F
21 προνοίας] παροινίας BE post ὡς add. γὰρ BE
4 Origenes Homil. in Num. IX
1 t. X p.
77 (lommatzsch): Sed et ex iis quae legimus singuli quiquo iustorum magis ex comparatione ceterorum clari videntur habiti apud Deum. denique de Noe scriptum est, quod esset iustus et perfectus in generatione sua; in quo ostenditur, quod non ex integro perfectus, sed in generatione sua perfectus fuerit et ad comparationem ceterorum iustus pronuntiatus sit,

Philo Judaeus De Abrahamo 40

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