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Philo Of Alexandria, On The Confusion Of Tongues, 81

nan But to him who was self-taught the following injunction of scripture was given, "Do not go down," says the scripture, "to Egypt," that is to say to passion; "but dwell in this land, land which I will tell thee Of," namely, in the incorporeal wisdom which cannot be pointed out to the eye; and be a sojourner in this land, the substance which can be pointed out and appreciated by the external sense. And this is said with a view to show, that the wise man is a sojourner in a foreign land, that is to say in the body perceptible by the outward senses, who dwells among the virtues appreciable by the intellect as in his native land, which virtues God utters as in no way differing from the divine word.

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1. Hebrew Bible, Genesis, 9.20, 23.4, 26.2-26.3, 47.9 (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE) 23.4. גֵּר־וְתוֹשָׁב אָנֹכִי עִמָּכֶם תְּנוּ לִי אֲחֻזַּת־קֶבֶר עִמָּכֶם וְאֶקְבְּרָה מֵתִי מִלְּפָנָי׃ 26.2. וַיֵּרָא אֵלָיו יְהוָה וַיֹּאמֶר אַל־תֵּרֵד מִצְרָיְמָה שְׁכֹן בָּאָרֶץ אֲשֶׁר אֹמַר אֵלֶיךָ׃ 26.2. וַיָּרִיבוּ רֹעֵי גְרָר עִם־רֹעֵי יִצְחָק לֵאמֹר לָנוּ הַמָּיִם וַיִּקְרָא שֵׁם־הַבְּאֵר עֵשֶׂק כִּי הִתְעַשְּׂקוּ עִמּוֹ׃ 26.3. גּוּר בָּאָרֶץ הַזֹּאת וְאֶהְיֶה עִמְּךָ וַאֲבָרְכֶךָּ כִּי־לְךָ וּלְזַרְעֲךָ אֶתֵּן אֶת־כָּל־הָאֲרָצֹת הָאֵל וַהֲקִמֹתִי אֶת־הַשְּׁבֻעָה אֲשֶׁר נִשְׁבַּעְתִּי לְאַבְרָהָם אָבִיךָ׃ 26.3. וַיַּעַשׂ לָהֶם מִשְׁתֶּה וַיֹּאכְלוּ וַיִּשְׁתּוּ׃ 9.20. And Noah, the man of the land, began and planted a vineyard." 23.4. ’I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.’" 26.2. And the LORD appeared unto him, and said: ‘Go not down unto Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of." 26.3. Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore unto Abraham thy father;"
2. Philo of Alexandria, On The Confusion of Tongues, 79, 78 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE) 78. Since therefore having taken up their abode among bodies, they behold all the mortal objects of the outward senses by their means, they then subsequently return back from thence to the place from which they set out at first, looking upon the heavenly country in which they have the rights of citizens as their native land, and as the earthly abode in which they dwell for a while as in a foreign land. For to those who are sent to be the inhabitants of a colony, the country which has received them is in place of their original mother country; but still the land which has sent them forth remains to them as the house to which they desire to return.
3. Philo of Alexandria, On Giants, 61 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE) 61. Lastly, those who are born of God are priests and prophets, who have not thought fit to mix themselves up in the constitutions of this world, and to become cosmopolites, but who having raised themselves above all the objects of the mere outward senses, have departed and fixed their views on that world which is perceptible only by the intellect, and have settled there, being inscribed in the state of incorruptible incorporeal ideas. XIV.
4. Philo of Alexandria, Allegorical Interpretation, 3.244 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE)
5. New Testament, Hebrews, 13.14 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) 13.14. For we don't have here an enduring city, but we seek that which is to come.
6. New Testament, Philippians, 3.20-3.21 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) 3.20. For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ; 3.21. who will change the body of our humiliation to be conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working by which he is able even to subject all things to himself.

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
abraham	Geljon and Runia, Philo of Alexandria: On Cultivation: Introduction, Translation and Commentary (2013) 161; Poorthuis and Schwartz, A Holy People: Jewish And Christian Perspectives on Religious Communal Identity (2006) 95
alien, the	Lieu, Christian Identity in the Jewish and Graeco-Roman World (2004) 225
babel, tower of babel	Luther Hartog and Wilde, Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Travel Experiences: 3rd century BCE – 8th century CE (2024) 23
body	Geljon and Runia, Philo of Alexandria: On Cultivation: Introduction, Translation and Commentary (2013) 161
diaspora, jewish	Lieu, Christian Identity in the Jewish and Graeco-Roman World (2004) 225
didache	Poorthuis and Schwartz, A Holy People: Jewish And Christian Perspectives on Religious Communal Identity (2006) 95
dispersion\u2002	Luther Hartog and Wilde, Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Travel Experiences: 3rd century BCE – 8th century CE (2024) 23
egypt, symbol of passions/body	Geljon and Runia, Philo of Alexandria: On Cultivation: Introduction, Translation and Commentary (2013) 161
encyclical culture	Geljon and Runia, Philo of Alexandria: On Cultivation: Introduction, Translation and Commentary (2013) 161
exile\u2002	Luther Hartog and Wilde, Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Travel Experiences: 3rd century BCE – 8th century CE (2024) 23
genesis\u2002	Luther Hartog and Wilde, Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Travel Experiences: 3rd century BCE – 8th century CE (2024) 23
geography	Lieu, Christian Identity in the Jewish and Graeco-Roman World (2004) 225
hagar	Geljon and Runia, Philo of Alexandria: On Cultivation: Introduction, Translation and Commentary (2013) 161
happiness	Geljon and Runia, Philo of Alexandria: On Cultivation: Introduction, Translation and Commentary (2013) 161
heaven as fatherland	Geljon and Runia, Philo of Alexandria: On Cultivation: Introduction, Translation and Commentary (2013) 161
identity, construction of identity	Luther Hartog and Wilde, Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Travel Experiences: 3rd century BCE – 8th century CE (2024) 23
identity, identify formation	Luther Hartog and Wilde, Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Travel Experiences: 3rd century BCE – 8th century CE (2024) 23
intellect	Geljon and Runia, Philo of Alexandria: On Cultivation: Introduction, Translation and Commentary (2013) 161
isaac	Geljon and Runia, Philo of Alexandria: On Cultivation: Introduction, Translation and Commentary (2013) 161; Poorthuis and Schwartz, A Holy People: Jewish And Christian Perspectives on Religious Communal Identity (2006) 95
itinerary\u2002	Luther Hartog and Wilde, Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Travel Experiences: 3rd century BCE – 8th century CE (2024) 23
jacob	Poorthuis and Schwartz, A Holy People: Jewish And Christian Perspectives on Religious Communal Identity (2006) 95
journey, earthly journey	Luther Hartog and Wilde, Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Travel Experiences: 3rd century BCE – 8th century CE (2024) 23
law of nature	Geljon and Runia, Philo of Alexandria: On Cultivation: Introduction, Translation and Commentary (2013) 161
metaphorical language/use	Geljon and Runia, Philo of Alexandria: On Cultivation: Introduction, Translation and Commentary (2013) 161
moses	Poorthuis and Schwartz, A Holy People: Jewish And Christian Perspectives on Religious Communal Identity (2006) 95
nomad\u2002	Luther Hartog and Wilde, Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Travel Experiences: 3rd century BCE – 8th century CE (2024) 23
nomadic life\u2002	Luther Hartog and Wilde, Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Travel Experiences: 3rd century BCE – 8th century CE (2024) 23
passions	Geljon and Runia, Philo of Alexandria: On Cultivation: Introduction, Translation and Commentary (2013) 161
patriarch\u2002	Luther Hartog and Wilde, Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Travel Experiences: 3rd century BCE – 8th century CE (2024) 23
sojourning	Lieu, Christian Identity in the Jewish and Graeco-Roman World (2004) 225
soul'	Geljon and Runia, Philo of Alexandria: On Cultivation: Introduction, Translation and Commentary (2013) 161
transience\u2002	Luther Hartog and Wilde, Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Travel Experiences: 3rd century BCE – 8th century CE (2024) 23
traveler, group	Luther Hartog and Wilde, Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Travel Experiences: 3rd century BCE – 8th century CE (2024) 23
world, the, citizenship of	Lieu, Christian Identity in the Jewish and Graeco-Roman World (2004) 225