Philo Judaeus, De Praemiis Et Poenis Et De Exsecrationibus, ed. Leopold Cohn, 61

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[61] 11 ἔχει δ’ ἕκαστος τῶν τριῶν τὴν ῥητὴν διήγησιν σύμβολον διανοίας ἀφανοῦς, ἣν ἐπισκεπτέον. αὐτίκα παντὶ τῷ διδασκομένῳ συμβαίνει μετιόντι πρὸς ἐπιστήμην ἀπολιπεῖν ἀμαθίαν·
ἀμαθία δὲ πολύχουν. διὰ τοῦτο ὁ πρῶτος λέγεται πολύπαις μέν, οὐδένα δὲ τῶν ἄλλων ἀξιώσας υἱὸν αὑτοῦ χρηματίζειν πλὴν ἑνός· τρόπον γάρ τινα καὶ ὁ μανθάνων ἀποκηρύττει τὰ τῆς ἀμαθίας ἔκγονα καὶ ὡς ἐχθρὰ καὶ δυσμενῆ παραιτεῖται.

De Praemiis Et Poenis Et De Exsecrationibus. Philo Judaeus. ed. Leopold Cohn. Germany. 2014.

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

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

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On Rewards and Punishments First1KGreek (The works of Philo Judaeus, the contemporary of Josephus, volume 3. Yonge, C. D., translator. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1855.) — 61 focus

And every one of these three individuals has in the account which we have received of him a figurative meaning concealed below it, which we must now consider. Now the moment that any one is taught anything, it happens to him to forsake ignorance and to come over to knowledge; and ignorance is a thing of a multiform character: on this account the first of the three is said to have had many children, but not to have thought any one of them worthy for him to call his son, except one: for in a manner he who learns discards the offspring of ignorance, and repudiates them as inimical and hostile to him.

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