Philo Judaeus, De Abrahamo, ed. Leopold Cohn, 71

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[71] ὅπως
οὖν βεβαιώσηται τὴν φανεῖσαν ὄψιν ἐν τῇ διανοίᾳ παγιώτερον, αὖθίς φησιν ὁ ἱερὸς λόγος αὐτῷ· „τὰ μεγάλα, ὦ οὗτος, ὑποτυπώσει βραχυτέρων ¹ πολλάκις γνωρίζεται, πρὸς ἅ τις ἀπιδὼν ηὔξησε τὴν φαντασίαν ἀπεριγράφοις μεγέθεσι. παραπεμψάμενος οὖν τούς τε κατ’ οὐρανὸν περιπολοῦντας καὶ τὴν Χαλδαϊκὴν ἐπιστήμην μετανάστηθι πρὸς ὀλίγον χρόνον ἀπὸ τῆς μεγίστης πόλεως, τοῦδε τοῦ κόσμου, πρὸς βραχυτέραν, δι’ ἧς δυνήσῃ μᾶλλον καταλαβεῖν τὸν ἔφορον τοῦ παντός.“

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.) — 71 focus

[71] In order, therefore, that he may the more firmly establish the sight which has thus been presented to him in his mind, the sacred word says to him, My good friend, great things are often made known by slight outlines, at which he who looks increases his imagination to an unlimited extent; therefore, having dismissed those who bend all their attention to the heavenly bodies, and discarding the Chaldaean science, rise up and depart for a short time from the greatest of cities, this world, to one which is smaller; for so you will be the better able to comprehend the nature of the Ruler of the universe.

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De Abrahamo

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1 καὶ τὰ πάντα F, καὶ πάντα οm. G ὑπέλαβον CFGK: οἷς ὑπέλαβον BE, αἷς ὑπέλαβον ceteri 2—8 ἀριθμοὶ—πεποιηκότι in Κ ab alt. manu suppleta 2.
3 ἅς— ἀναλογίαι om. Arm
2 ἅσπερ ἔχουσιν BE
3 καὶ addidi ἐσέμνυνον CFGK: ἐσέμνυναν ceteri
5 σελήνης καὶ ἡλίου transp. BE Arm quart. καὶ BEM: ἢ ceteri
6 κατὰ] καὶ F τὰς om. ’P’ ὁρῶν C τῶν om. G
7 συμ(??)θει· (sic) C
8 ἐξομοιώσαντες codd. (Turn.): ἐφομοιώσαντες Mang. τῷ om. Η1Ρ τοι Κ (coni. Mang.): τις ceteri δόξει G
10 διανοίξας CA(v), διανοίας FG
12 τινὰ om. Η1Ρ 13.
14 ἐπιμέλειαν—ποιούμενον om. Arm
14 ante καὶ add. αὐτοῦ vel τοῦ παντὸς Mang. post ὅπως add. δ’ H(v)
15 γοῦν coni. Mang. βεβαιώσηται codd.: βεβαιώσῃ v 15.
16 αὖθίς φησιν BE: αὖ φησιν KAHP, φησιν CFGM
16 ὁ ἱερὸς λόγος αὐτῶ BEK: αὐτῶ ὁ ἱερός λόγος ceteri Chaldaeus fuit, hoc est non solum in regione, sed etiam in opinione Chaldaeorum, Don poterat deum videre, quem intra mundum quaerebat. Chaldaei enim mundum superiorem deum dicunt, ut etiam . . . stellarum cursu ferri adserunt ea quae terrena sunt et quodam coerceri vinculo. unde et deos stellas appellaverunt, eo quod eas dominatum quendam habere supernum credant, quia quaedam stellis ad terrena compassio est. . . . ergo quamdiu mens Chaldaicis erroribus flectitur, non videt deum, quem in his quaerit quae videntur, non in his quae non videntur. . . . unde nec Abraham primum videbat. quomodo autem poterat videre eum, supra quem alterum esse arbitrabatur? ubi vero ad aliam demigravit non regionem, sed veram religionem paratam humilitati — hoc enim significat Ciianaan —, tunc deum videre coepit et eum cognoscere esse deum, cuius invisibili virtute advertit omnia regi et gubernari. hoc ergo scriptura docet, quia Abraham steilarum observatione demigrans deum vidit. Philonis opera vol. IV 2

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