Philo Judaeus, De Abrahamo, ed. Leopold Cohn, 69

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[69] Χαλδαῖοι γὰρ ἐν τοῖς μάλιστα διαπονήσαντες ¹ ἀστρονομίαν καὶ πάντα ταῖς κινήσεσι τῶν ἀστέρων ἀναθέντες ὑπέλαβον οἰκονομεῖσθαι τὰ ἐν κόσμῳ δυνάμεσιν, ἃς περιέχουσιν ἀριθμοὶ καὶ ἀριθμῶν ἀναλογίαι, καὶ τὴν ὁρατὴν οὐσίαν ἐσέμνυνον τῆς ἀοράτου καὶ νοητῆς οὐ λαβόντες ἔννοιαν, ἀλλὰ τὴν ἐν ἐκείνοις τάξιν διερευνώμενοι κατά τε τὰς
ἡλίου καὶ σελήνης καὶ τῶν ἄλλων πλανήτων καὶ ἀπλανῶν περιόδους καὶ κατὰ τὰς τῶν ἐτησίων ὡρῶν μεταβολὰς καὶ κατὰ τὴν τῶν οὐρανίων πρὸς τὰ ἐπίγεια συμπάθειαν τὸν κόσμον αὐτὸν ὑπέλαβον εἶναι θεόν, οὐκ εὐαγῶς τὸ γενόμενον ἐξομοιώσαντες τῷ πεποιηκότι.

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.) — 69 focus

[69] For the Chaldaeans were, above all nations, addicted to the study of astronomy, and attributed all events to the motions of the stars, by which they fancied that all the things in the world were regulated, and accordingly they magnified the visible essence by the powers which numbers and the analogies of numbers contain, taking no account of the invisible essence appreciable only by the intellect. But while they were busied in investigating the arrangement existing in them with reference to the periodical revolutions of the sun, and moon, and the other planets, and fixed-stars, and the changes of the seasons of the year, and the sympathy of the heavenly bodies with the things of earth, they were led to imagine that the world itself was God, in their impious philosophy comparing the creature to the Creator.

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De Abrahamo

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1 καὶ μεγίστοις om. Arm ὀνῆσαι] οἰκῆσαι M, κατανοῆσαι CFG δ’ ΒΕ
2 ὦν] ἣν Α
3 παρ’ ὀξὺ βλέποντας BEF: παροξὺ βλέποντας G, παρ’ ὀξὺ βλέποντες Α, παροξὺ βλέποντες C, παρ’ ὁξυβλεποῦντας KMP, πρὸς ὁξυβλεποῦντας Η, πρὸς ὀξὺ βλέποντας V ἀναποδήμητοι παρ’ ἐκδεδημηκότας om. CFG ἀποδήμητοι BE παρ’ ἐκδεδημηκότας KM: παρεκδεδημηκότας BEP, παρεκδεδυκότας Α, πρός ἐκδεδημηκότας H(v)
4 ἠπείγοντο G ante τὸ add. καὶ CFA πατρῷον] πρῶτον P καὶ προσκυνῆσαι om. Arm
5 ἡδίστης καὶ om. Arm
6 τὰς om. BEK
7 ἑλχθέντες C Arm: ἐλεχθέντες F, ἐλεγχθέντες ceteri
8 βεβαιοτάτῳ H (Turn.) ὀλίγον (alt. ο in ras.) Β ἢ καὶ] ἧκε BE
11 οὑν] γοῦν ΒΕ οὐ φυλετῶν] ὀφειλετῶν Α οὐχ ἑταίρων om. H ἑτέρων Α Arm
12 ὅσοι— ἦσαν om. Arm πρὸς om. C πατρίδος] πατρός CFG 12.
13 οὐκ ἀρχαίων ἐθῶν om. Arra
13 οὐ συνδιαιτήσεως om. Arm
14 #x003E; ὁλκὸν coni. Mang. ἔχων Α post ἔχον ss. καὶ Β (Richt.) ἐλευθέραις E: ἐλευθέροις ceteri (v)
15 ἦ Η, ἡ BMA τάχιστον Κ μὲν om. CFG
16 ἀκμαζούσης BEK Arm: ἁρμοζούσης ceteri
17 Χαρραίων γῆν] Μεσοποταμίαν Arm γῆν om. ΒΕ ἔπειτ’ BEK ἔπειτα—ὕστερον om. Arm
18 πάπον—εἰπόντες om. BE
19 Αἱ] αἱ δὲ BE ῥητῶ BEK: ῥήματι ceteri
20 κατὰ δὲ ἀλληγορίαν νόμων Arm ἐν ἀλληγορία BEK: ἀλληγορίας ceteri
21 ἐν τοῖς] ἑαυτοῖς G διαποιήσαντες BE (alt. ι corr. ex ν Ε)
21 sqq. Amlros. De Abraham II 3,9 . . . unde liquet eo referendum quia, (??) imdiu

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