Philo Judaeus, De Abrahamo, ed. Leopold Cohn, 47

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[47] 9 Τοιοῦτος μὲν ὁ τῶν καθ’ αὑτὸν ἄριστος, τοιαῦτα δὲ καὶ τὰ τεθειμένα ἆθλα αὐτῷ, ὁποῖα δεδήλωκεν ὁ ἱερὸς λόγος. τῶν δ’ εἰρημένων
τριῶν εἴτε ἀνδρῶν εἴτε ψυχῆς τρόπων ἐναρμόνιος ἡ τάξις· ὁ μὲν γὰρ τέλειος ὁλόκληρος ἐξ ἀρχῆς, ὁ δὲ μετατεθειμένος ἡμίεργος, τοῦ βίου τὸν μὲν πρότερον χρόνον ἀναθεὶς κακίᾳ, τὸν δ’ ὕστερον ἀρετῇ, πρὸς ἣν μετανέστη καὶ μετῳκίσατο, ὁ δὲ ἐλπίζων, ὡς αὐτὸ δηλοῖ τοὔνομα, ¹ ἐλλιπής, ἐφιέμενος μὲν ἀεὶ τοῦ καλοῦ, μήπω δ’ ἐφικέσθαι τούτου δεδυνημένος, ἀλλ’ ἐοικὼς τοῖς πλέουσιν, οἳ σπεύδοντες εἰς λιμένας καταίρειν θαλαττεύουσιν ἐνορμίσασθαι μὴ δυνάμενοι.

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.) — 47 focus

Such was he who was the most virtuous of all the men of his age, and such were the rewards which were allotted to him which the holy scriptures enumerate; and the arrangement and classification of the aforesaid three, whether you call them men or dispositions of the soul, is very symmetrical, for the perfect man is entire from the beginning; but he who has his place changed is but half entire, having appropriated the earlier period of his life to wickedness, and the subsequent time to virtue to which he afterwards came over, and with which at that subsequent time he lived. But he who hopes, as his very name shows, has still a defect, for though he is always wishing for what is good, he is not as yet able to attain to it, but he is like those who are on a voyage, who while they are eager to reach the harbour, are still kept at sea without being able to anchor in port.

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De Abrahamo

1.
2 ἅπασαν ἤλω (sic) BE ἀνήλωται F, ἠλλοιώθη Arm νικηθεὶς] τῶ νενικῆσθαι ΒΚ, τῶ νικῆσθαι Ε φορᾶς καὶ βίας BEK: βίας καὶ φορᾶς ceteri, φορᾶς καὶ om. Arm
3 τότε δὴ τότε BEK: alt. τότε om. ceteri
5 δὲ BEK
8 πράξεσιν FG ὑπηρετήσοντα CBEH2: ὑπηρετήσαντα ceteri
9 ἐπηρραξάντων Ε; καταρραξάντων coni. Mang.
10 κατὰ τὸν οὐρανὸν BEK Arm: κατ’ οὐρανόν ceteri
12 δὲ om. Arm ὁ om. Bli
13 μέν om. BE 13.
14 πᾶσι τούτοις] πᾶσιν οὗτος Α
14 ἀρχηγέτην αὐτὸν BEK: αὐτὸν ἀρχηγέτην ceteri ὑπάρξειν MH2 νέας] γενεᾶς CFGA, τοῦ γένους τῆς νέας BE
15 τοῦ γένους ἡμῶν BEK Arm: ἡμῶν τοῦ γένους ceteri
18 καθ’ αὑτῶν G
19 τιθέμενα CFG 19.
20 τῶν— τάξις om. CFG
20 εἴτε ἀνδρῶν om. ΗΡ1 (Turn.), add. mg. Ρ2 ψυχῆς scripsi (sic Arm ut vid.): ψυχῶν codd. ante τρόπων add. εἴτε Η2 (Turn.) τρόπων corr. ex τρόπον Κ, τρόπον BE
21 ὁλόκληρον F μετατιθέμενος CFG ἡμίεργός M τοῦ βίου om. C, post χρόνον (22) transp. Arm
22 πρῶτον Κ ἀναθεὶς BEK: ἀνατιθεὶς ceteri δὲ BEK
23 μετωικήσατο M, μετωκήσατο BAFP δ’ BEK τοὔνομα om. BE

Philo Judaeus De Abrahamo 47

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