Philo, Volume II: On the Cherubim. The Sacrifices of Abel by Philo Judaeus; F. H. Colson; G. H. Whitaker (trans.)

By Philo Judaeus; F. H. Colson; G. H. Whitaker (trans.)

The thinker Philo used to be born approximately 20 BCE to a in demand Jewish kin in Alexandria, the manager domestic of the Jewish Diaspora in addition to the manager heart of Hellenistic tradition; he used to be knowledgeable in Greek in addition to Jewish studying. In trying to reconcile biblical teachings with Greek philosophy he constructed principles that had large impact on Christian and Jewish non secular inspiration. The Loeb Classical Library variation of the works of Philo is in ten volumes and supplementations, disbursed as follows. quantity I: production; Interpretation of Genesis II and III. II: at the Cherubim; The Sacrifices of Abel and Cain; the more severe assaults the higher; The Posterity and Exile of Cain; at the Giants. III: The Unchangeableness of God; On Husbandry; Noah's paintings as a Planter; On Drunkenness; On Sobriety. IV: The Confusion of Tongues; The Migration of Abraham; The inheritor of Divine issues; at the initial experiences. V: On Flight and discovering; swap of Names; On goals. VI: Abraham; Joseph; Moses. VII: The Decalogue; On precise legislation Books I–III. VIII: On targeted legislation e-book IV; at the Virtues; Rewards and Punishments. IX: each solid guy Is loose; The Contemplative lifestyles; The Eternity of the realm; opposed to Flaccus; Apology for the Jews; On windfall. X: at the Embassy to Gaius; indexes. complement I: questions about Genesis. II: questions about Exodus; index to vitamins.

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But when dis­ appointment and misfortune befall him he does indeed recognize that these were true prophets, fully competent to guard against the chances of the future, but he lays all the blame on wholly guiltless objects, the farming, the trading, the other pursuits, which of his own judgement he followed for lucre. X I . And these pursuits, though they have no vocal organs, will utter the language which speaks in the reality of facts, a language which is plainer than the language of the tongue.

X X I . Surely Laban, whose heart was fixed on particular qualities, must have made Jacob laugh loud and long, Jacob who discerns rather than these the nature which is outside class or category. Laban dared to say to him " the daughters are my daughters, the sons are my sons, the cattle are my cattle, and all that thou seest are mine and my daughters' " (Gen. xxxi. 43). In each case he adds the " my," and his proud talk about himself goes on without ceas­ ing. The daughters, tell me—daughters, you know, are the arts and branches of knowledge in the soul—do you say they are your daughters ?

Again even a virgin soul may perchance be dishonoured through the defile­ ment of licentious passions. Therefore the oracle makes itself safe by speaking of God as the husband not of a virgin, for a virgin is liable to change and death, but of virginity, the idea which is unchange­ able and eternal. For particulars within a class are of their nature such as to come into being and pass out of it again, but to the potencies which give their form to these particulars is allotted an existence in­ destructible.

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