Philo Judaeus, De Abrahamo, ed. Leopold Cohn, 6

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[6] ἐκεῖνοι γὰρ οὔτε γνώριμοι καὶ φοιτηταὶ γενόμενοί τινων οὔτε παρὰ διδασκάλοις ἃ χρὴ
πράττειν καὶ λέγειν ἀναδιδαχθέντες, αὐτήκοοι δὲ καὶ αὐτομαθεῖς, ἀκολουθίαν φύσεως ἀσπασάμενοι, τὴν φύσιν αὐτήν, ὅπερ ἐστὶ πρὸς ἀλήθειαν, πρεσβύτατον θεσμὸν εἶναι ὑπολαβόντες ἅπαντα τὸν βίον ηὐνομήθησαν, ὑπαίτιον μὲν οὐδὲν γνώμαις ἑκουσίοις ἐργασάμενοι, περὶ δὲ τῶν ἐκ τύχης ποτνιώμενοι τὸν θεὸν καὶ λιταῖς καὶ ἱκεσίαις ἐξευμενιζόμενοι πρὸς
ὁλοκλήρου μετουσίαν ζωῆς δι’ ἀμφοτέρων κατορθουμένης τῶν τε ἐκ προνοίας καὶ τῶν ἄνευ ἑκουσίου γνώμης.

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.) — 6 focus

[6] for these first men, without ever having been followers or pupils of any one, and without ever having been taught by preceptors what they ought to do or say, but having embraced a line of conduct consistent with nature from attending to their own natural impulses, and from being prompted by an innate virtue, and looking upon nature herself to be, what in fact she is, the most ancient and duly established of laws, did in reality spend their whole lives in making laws, never of deliberate purpose doing anything open to reproach, and for their accidental errors propitiating God, and appeasing him by prayers and supplications, so as to procure for themselves the enjoyment of an entire life of virtue and prosperity, both in respect of their deliberate actions, and those which proceeded from no voluntary purpose.

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De Abrahamo

1.
1 κατὰ τὸ ἑξῆς om. BE καὶ ἀκόλουθον scripsi: κατακόλουθον BE, ἀκόλουθον ceteri ἀναγκαῖον ἦν Κ Arm, ἦν (om. ἀναγκαῖον) BE
2 ἐπὶ μέρη F καὶ ὡς ἄν om. C ὡς ἄν εἰκόνων] ὡσανεὶ κοινῶν BEMAP2 εἰκόνων] ἐκείνων C
3 καὶ om. C διερευνήσωμεν codd.: διερευνήσομεν Maug.
5 οὐχ ὑπέρ τὸν ἐκείνων ἔπαινον G, οὐχ ὑπὲρ τὸν (corr. ex τοῦ) τὸν ἐκείνων ἔπαινον F, οὐχ ὑπὲρ τοῦ ἐκείνων ἐπαίνου C ἐκεῖνον EP
7 ὅμοιον BEK Arm: τῶν ὁμοίων ceteri S μὲν] γὰρ P, μὲν ὅτι in ras. Η (Turn.) δεῖξαι L (Turn.)
9 τεθειμένα BEKM: τιθέμενα ceteri τῶν τῆς φύσεως coni. Mang. δὲ om. Α διότι BE
10 ἐθέλουσι BEK: θέλουσι ceteri
11 τι] τε BE
12 τινα] τις C, τι FG
13 τιθέντας Mang. μηδὲν om. Α ἀλλ’ ἢ coni. Wendl. τοῦ βίου Κ
15 διδασκάλους Ε, διδασκάλων ΒΚ
18 πρεσβύτατον CFG Arm: νόμιμον, πρεσβύτατον Κ, πρεσβύτατον νόμιμον ceteri ἅπαντα τὸν βίον ηὐνομήθησαν om. CFG, ηὐνομήθησαν om. in lc. Α 18.
19 ηὐνομήθησαν BEK Arm: ἐνομοθέτησαν MHP
19 δὲ om. E
20 καὶ λιταῖς om. ΒΕ καὶ ταῖς ἱκεσίαις BE
22 ἄνευ] ἐξ Arm
7 ἔμψυχοι νόμοι] ν. Hirzel, Ἄγραφος νόμος p. 17.
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Philo Judaeus De Abrahamo 6

ed. Leopold Cohn

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