Philo Judaeus De Abrahamo 82

ed. Leopold Cohn

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[82] Ἄβραμ μὲν γὰρ ἑρμηνευθέν ἐστι „πατὴρ μετέωρος“, Ἀβραὰμ δὲ „πατὴρ ἐκλεκτὸς ἠχοῦς“, τὸ
μὲν πρότερον ἐμφαῖνον τὸν ἀστρολογικὸν καὶ μετεωρολογικὸν ἐπικαλούμενον, οὕτως τῶν Χαλδαϊκῶν δογμάτων ἐπιμελούμενον, ὡς ἄν τις πατὴρ ἐγγόνων ἐπιμεληθείη, τὸ δ’ ὕστερον τὸν σοφόν.

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.) — 82 focus

[82] for the name Abram being interpreted means "sublime father;" but Abraham signifies, "the elect father of sound." The first name being expressive of the man who is called an astronomer, and one addicted to the contemplation of the sublime bodies in the sky, and who was versed in the doctrines of the Chaldaeans, and who took care of them as a father might take care of his children.

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