1. Hebrew Bible, Genesis, 9.20 (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •figures of speech, asyndeton Found in books: Geljon and Runia (2013) 251 | 9.20. "And Noah, the man of the land, began and planted a vineyard.", |
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2. Philo of Alexandria, On The Life of Abraham, 54 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •figures of speech, asyndeton Found in books: Geljon and Runia (2013) 251 | 54. Very appropriately, therefore, he has represented, as united by relationship, these three, which in name indeed are men, but in reality, as I have said before, virtues, nature, instruction, and practice, which men also call by another name, and entitle them the three graces (charites), either from the fact of God having bestowed (kecharisthai) on our race those three powers, in order to produce the perfection of life, or because they themselves have bestowed themselves on the rational soul as the most glorious of gifts, so that the eternal name, as set forth in the scriptures, may not be used in conjunction with three men, but rather with the aforesaid powers; |
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3. Philo of Alexandria, On The Cherubim, 102 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •figures of speech, asyndeton Found in books: Geljon and Runia (2013) 251 | 102. for from goodness of disposition arise skill, perseverance, memory; and from knowledge arise learning and attention, as the roots of a tree which is about to bring forth eatable fruit, and without which it is impossible to bring the intellect to perfection. 102. Now, those who have applied themselves to mathematical studies, fully explain the precedence and pre-eminence to which the number seven is entitled among all existing things, tracing it out with great care and exceeding minuteness and accuracy; for among numbers seven is the virgin number, the nature which has no mother, that which is most nearly related to the unit, the foundation of all numbers; the idea of the planets, just as the unit is of the immovable sphere; for of the unit and the number seven consists the incorporeal heaven, the model of the visible heaven, and the heaven is made up of indivisible and divisible nature. |
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4. Philo of Alexandria, On The Creation of The World, 23 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •figures of speech, asyndeton Found in books: Geljon and Runia (2013) 251 | 23. And God, not being urged on by any prompter (for who else could there have been to prompt him?) but guided by his own sole will, decided that it was fitting to benefit with unlimited and abundant favours a nature which, without the divine gift, was unable to itself to partake of any good thing; but he benefits it, not according to the greatness of his own graces, for they are illimitable and eternal, but according to the power of that which is benefited to receive his graces. For the capacity of that which is created to receive benefits does not correspond to the natural power of God to confer them; since his powers are infinitely greater, and the thing created being not sufficiently powerful to receive all their greatness would have sunk under it, if he had not measured his bounty, allotting to each, in due proportion, that which was poured upon it. |
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| 5. Philo of Alexandria, That The Worse Attacks The Better, 75 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •figures of speech, asyndeton Found in books: Geljon and Runia (2013) 251 |
| 6. Sextus, Against The Mathematicians, 8.275-8.276 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •figures of speech, asyndeton Found in books: Geljon and Runia (2013) 251 |
