Philo Judaeus De Virtutibus 129

ed. Leopold Cohn

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[129] χάρισαι
δή, φησί, τῇ μητρὶ τὸ ἔγγονον, εἰ καὶ μὴ τὸν σύμπαντα χρόνον, p. 397 M. ἑπτὰ γοῦν τὰς πρώτας ἡμέρας γαλακτοτροφῆσαι, καὶ μὴ ἀνωφελεῖς ἃς ἡ φύσις ὤμβρησε πηγὰς ἐν μαστοῖς ἐργάσῃ, τὰς δευτέρας αὐτῆς χάριτας ἀνελών, ἃς ἐκ πολλοῦ τοῦ προμηθοῦς ἡτοιμάσατο τἀκόλουθον μακρόθεν αἰωνίῳ καὶ τελείᾳ φρονήσει κατιδοῦσα —

De Virtutibus. Philo Judaeus. ed. Leopold Cohn. Germany. 2014.

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

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De Virtutibus (Greek) (Philo Judaeus. Opera quae supersunt, Volume 5. Cohn, Leonard, editor. Berlin: Reimer, 1906.)

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On Three Virtues, that is to say, on Courage, Humanity, and Repentance First1KGreek (The works of Philo Judaeus, the contemporary of Josephus, volume 3. Yonge, C. D., translator. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1855.) — 129 focus

[129] Therefore, says the law, give her offspring to the mother, if not for the whole time, still at all events for the first seven days, to rear on her milk, and render not unprofitable those fountains of milk which nature has bestowed upon her breasts, destroying that second bounty of hers which she has prepared ¹ with great prudence, perceiving from a distance by her everlasting and perfect wisdom what will hereafter happen.

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