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Philo Of Alexandria, On The Life Of Abraham, 134


nanAnd the cause of its excessive and immoderate intemperance was the unlimited abundance of supplies of all kinds which its inhabitants enjoyed. For the land was one with a deep soil, and well watered, and as such produced abundant crops of every kind of fruit every year. And he was a wise man and spoke truly who said-- "The greatest cause of all iniquity Is found in overmuch prosperity.


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1. Philo of Alexandria, On The Life of Abraham, 136, 135 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE)

135. As men, being unable to bear discreetly a satiety of these things, get restive like cattle, and become stiff-necked, and discard the laws of nature, pursuing a great and intemperate indulgence of gluttony, and drinking, and unlawful connections; for not only did they go mad after women, and defile the marriage bed of others, but also those who were men lusted after one another, doing unseemly things, and not regarding or respecting their common nature, and though eager for children, they were convicted by having only an abortive offspring; but the conviction produced no advantage, since they were overcome by violent desire;
2. Philo of Alexandria, On Drunkenness, 122 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE)

122. But some persons have succumbed contrary to their inclinations, not because the energies of their souls are more effeminate, but because they have been overwhelmed by the more vigorous strength of their adversaries; and imitating those who are willing slaves, they have voluntarily cast themselves down before either masters, though they were freemen by birth; on which account being unable to be sold they have, which is the most incredible of all things, bought masters for themselves and so become slaves, doing the very same thing with those who are insatiably eager for drunkenness with wine;
3. Philo of Alexandria, On Flight And Finding, 122, 121 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE)

121. Those, then, who have no desire for either discovery or investigation have shamefully debased their reason by ignorance and indifference, and though they had it in their power to see acutely, they have become blind. Thus he says that "Lot's wife turning backwards became a pillar of Salt;" not here inventing a fable, but pointing out the proper nature of the event.
4. Philo of Alexandria, De Providentia, 2.64 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE)

5. Philo of Alexandria, On The Life of Moses, 2.12-2.13, 2.56 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE)

2.12. But that he himself is the most admirable of all the lawgivers who have ever lived in any country either among the Greeks or among the barbarians, and that his are the most admirable of all laws, and truly divine, omitting no one particular which they ought to comprehend, there is the clearest proof possible in this fact, the laws of other lawgivers 2.13. if any one examines them by his reason, he will find to be put in motion in an innumerable multitude of pretexts, either because of wars, or of tyrannies, or of some other unexpected events which come upon nations through the various alterations and innovations of fortune; and very often luxury, abounding in all kind of superfluity and unbounded extravagance, has overturned laws, from the multitude not being able to bear unlimited prosperity, but having a tendency to become insolent through satiety, and insolence is in opposition to law. 2.56. Therefore on this occasion, as the holy scriptures tell us, thunderbolts fell from heaven, and burnt up those wicked men and their cities; and even to this day there are seen in Syria monuments of the unprecedented destruction that fell upon them, in the ruins, and ashes, and sulphur, and smoke, and dusky flame which still is sent up from the ground as of a fire smouldering beneath;
6. Philo of Alexandria, Allegorical Interpretation, 3.213 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE)



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abraham, name largely omitted by philo Feldman, Judaism and Hellenism Reconsidered (2006) 269
allegory Bloch, Ancient Jewish Diaspora: Essays on Hellenism (2022) 105
aqedah, in philo, a drama Feldman, Judaism and Hellenism Reconsidered (2006) 269
baer, richard a. Taylor and Hay, Philo of Alexandria: On the Contemplative Life: Introduction, Translation and Commentary (2020) 257
cicero Gorman, Gorman, Corrupting Luxury in Ancient Greek Literature (2014) 435
dead sea Bloch, Ancient Jewish Diaspora: Essays on Hellenism (2022) 105
destruction/ruin Gorman, Gorman, Corrupting Luxury in Ancient Greek Literature (2014) 435
drinking/drunkenness Gorman, Gorman, Corrupting Luxury in Ancient Greek Literature (2014) 435
hubris Gorman, Gorman, Corrupting Luxury in Ancient Greek Literature (2014) 435
jerusalem Bloch, Ancient Jewish Diaspora: Essays on Hellenism (2022) 105
judea Bloch, Ancient Jewish Diaspora: Essays on Hellenism (2022) 105
livy Gorman, Gorman, Corrupting Luxury in Ancient Greek Literature (2014) 435
moses Bloch, Ancient Jewish Diaspora: Essays on Hellenism (2022) 105
myth, jewish critique of Bloch, Ancient Jewish Diaspora: Essays on Hellenism (2022) 105
sallust Gorman, Gorman, Corrupting Luxury in Ancient Greek Literature (2014) 435
satiety' Gorman, Gorman, Corrupting Luxury in Ancient Greek Literature (2014) 435
sodom Bloch, Ancient Jewish Diaspora: Essays on Hellenism (2022) 105; Gorman, Gorman, Corrupting Luxury in Ancient Greek Literature (2014) 435
sybaris, destruction of Gorman, Gorman, Corrupting Luxury in Ancient Greek Literature (2014) 435
sybaris, luxury/decadence at Gorman, Gorman, Corrupting Luxury in Ancient Greek Literature (2014) 435
sybaris Gorman, Gorman, Corrupting Luxury in Ancient Greek Literature (2014) 435
syria, syrians (ancient) Bloch, Ancient Jewish Diaspora: Essays on Hellenism (2022) 105
tourism Bloch, Ancient Jewish Diaspora: Essays on Hellenism (2022) 105