Philo Judaeus De Abrahamo 42

ed. Leopold Cohn

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[42] ἡ μὲν γὰρ μεγάλη θάλαττα μετέωρος ὡς οὐδέπω πρότερον ἀρθεῖσα διὰ τῶν στομάτων ἀθρόᾳ ῥύμῃ τοῖς καθ’ ἡμᾶς εἰσερρύη
πελάγεσι, τὰ δὲ πλημμύραντα νήσους καὶ ἠπείρους ἐπέκλυσε, πηγῶν δ’ ἀενάων καὶ ποταμῶν αὐθιγενῶν τε καὶ χειμάρρων ἐπάλληλοι φοραὶ συνῆπτον ἀλλήλαις ἀναχεόμεναι καὶ πρὸς ὕψος ἐπαιρόμεναι ἐπέβαινον.

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.) — 42 focus

[42] but those also who lived in the most lofty mountains, for the great deep, ¹ being raised to a height which it had never reached before, burst through its mouths with its whole collective impetuosity into the seas existing among us, and they overflowed and inundated all the islands and continents; and incessant floods of everlasting fountains, and of native rivers and torrents combined together, mingled with one another, and rising to a vast height, so as to surmount everything.

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