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Philo Of Alexandria, That The Worse Attacks The Better, 81

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And, indeed, he is accustomed diligently to record all the suggestions and purposes of God from the beginning, thinking it right to adopt his subsequent statements to aid to make them consistent with his first accounts. Therefore, after he had previously stated the breath to be the essence of the life, he would not subsequently have spoken of the blood as occupying the most important place in the body, unless he had been making a reference to some very necessary and comprehensive principle.

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1. Hebrew Bible, Exodus, 2.21 (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE)

2.21. וַיּוֹאֶל מֹשֶׁה לָשֶׁבֶת אֶת־הָאִישׁ וַיִּתֵּן אֶת־צִפֹּרָה בִתּוֹ לְמֹשֶׁה׃

2.21. And Moses was content to dwell with the man; and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter."

2. Hebrew Bible, Genesis, 2.17, 4.1, 4.16 (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE)

2.17. וּמֵעֵץ הַדַּעַת טוֹב וָרָע לֹא תֹאכַל מִמֶּנּוּ כִּי בְּיוֹם אֲכָלְךָ מִמֶּנּוּ מוֹת תָּמוּת׃ 4.1. וַיֹּאמֶר מֶה עָשִׂיתָ קוֹל דְּמֵי אָחִיךָ צֹעֲקִים אֵלַי מִן־הָאֲדָמָה׃ 4.1. וְהָאָדָם יָדַע אֶת־חַוָּה אִשְׁתּוֹ וַתַּהַר וַתֵּלֶד אֶת־קַיִן וַתֹּאמֶר קָנִיתִי אִישׁ אֶת־יְהוָה׃ 4.16. וַיֵּצֵא קַיִן מִלִּפְנֵי יְהוָה וַיֵּשֶׁב בְּאֶרֶץ־נוֹד קִדְמַת־עֵדֶן׃

2.17. but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it; for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.’" 4.1. And the man knew Eve his wife; and she conceived and bore Cain, and said: ‘I have agotten a man with the help of the LORD.’" 4.16. And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden."

3. Philo of Alexandria, On The Confusion of Tongues, 11-15, 2-10 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE)

10. But this precaution does not appear to have turned out of any use; for since that time, though men have been separated into different nations, and have no longer used one language, nevertheless, land and sea have been repeatedly filled with unspeakable evils. For it was not the languages which were the causes of men's uniting for evil objects, but the emulation and rivalry of their souls in wrong-doing.

4. Philo of Alexandria, On Flight And Finding, 54 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE)

54. Knowing very well that the law is here adding no superfluous word from any indescribable impetuosity in its description of the matter, I doubted within myself why it does not merely say that he who has slain another shall die, and why it has added, that he shall die the death;

5. Philo of Alexandria, On The Posterity of Cain, 3, 5-7, 2 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE)

2. For if the living God has a face, and if he who desires to leave it can with perfect ease rise up and depart to another place, why do we repudiate the impiety of the Epicureans, or the godlessness of the Egyptians, or the mythical suggestions of which life is full?

6. Philo of Alexandria, Allegorical Interpretation, 1.105 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE)

1.105. Accordingly God says, "In the day in which ye eat of it ye shall die the death." And yet, though they have eaten of it, they not only do not die, but they even beget children, and are the causes of life to other beings besides themselves. What, then, are we to say? Surely that death is of two kinds; the one being the death of the man, the other the peculiar death of the soul--now the death of the man is the separation of his soul from his body, but the death of the soul is the destruction of virtue and the admission of vice;

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
alexandria	Niehoff, Jewish Exegesis and Homeric Scholarship in Alexandria (2011) 140
aristarchus	Niehoff, Jewish Exegesis and Homeric Scholarship in Alexandria (2011) 140
aristobulus	Niehoff, Jewish Exegesis and Homeric Scholarship in Alexandria (2011) 140
aristotelian tradition	Niehoff, Jewish Exegesis and Homeric Scholarship in Alexandria (2011) 140
consistency, of the bible	Niehoff, Jewish Exegesis and Homeric Scholarship in Alexandria (2011) 140
contradiction	Niehoff, Jewish Exegesis and Homeric Scholarship in Alexandria (2011) 140
demetrius	Niehoff, Jewish Exegesis and Homeric Scholarship in Alexandria (2011) 140
demetrius colleagues	Niehoff, Jewish Exegesis and Homeric Scholarship in Alexandria (2011) 140
egypt	Niehoff, Jewish Exegesis and Homeric Scholarship in Alexandria (2011) 140
grammatical archive, commentarial strategies, allegory (ἀλληγορία)	Ward, Clement and Scriptural Exegesis: The Making of a Commentarial Theologian (2022) 38
literal sense	Niehoff, Jewish Exegesis and Homeric Scholarship in Alexandria (2011) 140
metaphorical interpretation	Niehoff, Jewish Exegesis and Homeric Scholarship in Alexandria (2011) 140
moses	Niehoff, Jewish Exegesis and Homeric Scholarship in Alexandria (2011) 140
niehoff, maren	Ward, Clement and Scriptural Exegesis: The Making of a Commentarial Theologian (2022) 38
non-literal interpretation	Niehoff, Jewish Exegesis and Homeric Scholarship in Alexandria (2011) 140
paradise	Niehoff, Jewish Exegesis and Homeric Scholarship in Alexandria (2011) 140
philo	Niehoff, Jewish Exegesis and Homeric Scholarship in Alexandria (2011) 140
philo of alexandria	Ward, Clement and Scriptural Exegesis: The Making of a Commentarial Theologian (2022) 38
raguel	Niehoff, Jewish Exegesis and Homeric Scholarship in Alexandria (2011) 140
reader, allegorical	Niehoff, Jewish Exegesis and Homeric Scholarship in Alexandria (2011) 140
scholarship, aristotelian	Niehoff, Jewish Exegesis and Homeric Scholarship in Alexandria (2011) 140
scholarship, literal'	Niehoff, Jewish Exegesis and Homeric Scholarship in Alexandria (2011) 140
zipporah	Niehoff, Jewish Exegesis and Homeric Scholarship in Alexandria (2011) 140