1. Hebrew Bible, Exodus, 16.23 (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •noah, generations of, as virtues Found in books: Birnbaum and Dillon (2020), Philo of Alexandria: On the Life of Abraham: Introduction, Translation, and Commentary, 94| 16.23. "וַיֹּאמֶר אֲלֵהֶם הוּא אֲשֶׁר דִּבֶּר יְהוָה שַׁבָּתוֹן שַׁבַּת־קֹדֶשׁ לַיהוָה מָחָר אֵת אֲשֶׁר־תֹּאפוּ אֵפוּ וְאֵת אֲשֶׁר־תְּבַשְּׁלוּ בַּשֵּׁלוּ וְאֵת כָּל־הָעֹדֵף הַנִּיחוּ לָכֶם לְמִשְׁמֶרֶת עַד־הַבֹּקֶר׃", | 16.23. "And he said unto them: ‘This is that which the LORD hath spoken: To-morrow is a solemn rest, a holy sabbath unto the LORD. Bake that which ye will bake, and seethe that which ye will seethe; and all that remaineth over lay up for you to be kept until the morning.’", |
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2. Hebrew Bible, Genesis, 5.29, 6.9, 12.1 (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Birnbaum and Dillon (2020), Philo of Alexandria: On the Life of Abraham: Introduction, Translation, and Commentary, 94, 95, 174, 179, 180| 5.29. "וַיִּקְרָא אֶת־שְׁמוֹ נֹחַ לֵאמֹר זֶה יְנַחֲמֵנוּ מִמַּעֲשֵׂנוּ וּמֵעִצְּבוֹן יָדֵינוּ מִן־הָאֲדָמָה אֲשֶׁר אֵרְרָהּ יְהוָה׃", 6.9. "אֵלֶּה תּוֹלְדֹת נֹחַ נֹחַ אִישׁ צַדִּיק תָּמִים הָיָה בְּדֹרֹתָיו אֶת־הָאֱלֹהִים הִתְהַלֶּךְ־נֹחַ׃", 12.1. "וַיְהִי רָעָב בָּאָרֶץ וַיֵּרֶד אַבְרָם מִצְרַיְמָה לָגוּר שָׁם כִּי־כָבֵד הָרָעָב בָּאָרֶץ׃", 12.1. "וַיֹּאמֶר יְהוָה אֶל־אַבְרָם לֶךְ־לְךָ מֵאַרְצְךָ וּמִמּוֹלַדְתְּךָ וּמִבֵּית אָבִיךָ אֶל־הָאָרֶץ אֲשֶׁר אַרְאֶךָּ׃", | 5.29. "And he called his name Noah, saying: ‘This same shall comfort us in our work and in the toil of our hands, which cometh from the ground which the LORD hath cursed.’", 6.9. "These are the generations of Noah. Noah was in his generations a man righteous and wholehearted; Noah walked with God.", 12.1. "Now the LORD said unto Abram: ‘Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto the land that I will show thee.", |
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| 3. Plato, Laws, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Birnbaum and Dillon (2020), Philo of Alexandria: On the Life of Abraham: Introduction, Translation, and Commentary, 179 |
| 4. Euripides, Bacchae, 386 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •noah, generations of, as virtues Found in books: Birnbaum and Dillon (2020), Philo of Alexandria: On the Life of Abraham: Introduction, Translation, and Commentary, 179 |
| 5. Demosthenes, Olynthiac 1, 1.2 (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •noah, generations of, as virtues Found in books: Birnbaum and Dillon (2020), Philo of Alexandria: On the Life of Abraham: Introduction, Translation, and Commentary, 179 |
| 6. Septuagint, Ecclesiasticus (Siracides), 17.5 (2nd cent. BCE - 2nd cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •noah, virtues of Found in books: Birnbaum and Dillon (2020), Philo of Alexandria: On the Life of Abraham: Introduction, Translation, and Commentary, 174 |
| 7. Philo of Alexandria, That The Worse Attacks The Better, 139 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •noah, generations of, as virtues Found in books: Birnbaum and Dillon (2020), Philo of Alexandria: On the Life of Abraham: Introduction, Translation, and Commentary, 180 |
8. Philo of Alexandria, Who Is The Heir, 110, 285 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Birnbaum and Dillon (2020), Philo of Alexandria: On the Life of Abraham: Introduction, Translation, and Commentary, 179 | 285. Therefore he speaks of him who has lived in peace, who has enjoyed a serene and tranquil life, as a man truly happy and blessed. When then shall this happen? When all external things prosper with me, in such a way as to tend to by abundance and to my glory. When the things relating to the body are in a favourble state, so as to give me good health and strength; and when the things relating to my soul are in a similar state, so as to enable it to enjoy the virtues. |
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| 9. Philo of Alexandria, Questions On Genesis, 1.97 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Birnbaum and Dillon (2020), Philo of Alexandria: On the Life of Abraham: Introduction, Translation, and Commentary, 180 |
10. Philo of Alexandria, On The Life of Moses, 1.26, 1.214, 2.129 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •noah, generations of, as virtues Found in books: Birnbaum and Dillon (2020), Philo of Alexandria: On the Life of Abraham: Introduction, Translation, and Commentary, 179, 180 | 1.26. And he tamed, and appeased, and brought under due command every one of the other passions which are naturally and as far as they are themselves concerned frantic, and violent, and unmanageable. And if any one of them at all excited itself and endeavoured to get free from restraint he administered severe punishment to it, reproving it with severity of language; and, in short, he repressed all the principal impulses and most violent affections of the soul, and kept guard over them as over a restive horse, fearing lest they might break all bounds and get beyond the power of reason which ought to be their guide to restrain them, and so throw everything everywhere into confusion. For these passions are the causes of all good and of all evil; of good when they submit to the authority of domit reason, and of evil when they break out of bounds and scorn all government and restraint. 1.214. And now, as they had gone over a vast tract of land previously untravelled, there appeared some boundaries of habitable country and some suburbs, as it were, of the land to which they were proceeding, and the Phoenicians inhabited it. But they, hoping that a tranquil and peaceable life would now be permitted to them, were deceived in their expectation; 2.129. not but what he has also assigned their two appropriate virtues to those two kinds of reason which exist in each of us, namely, that which is uttered and that which is kept concealed, attributing clearness of manifestation to the uttered one, and truth to that which is concealed in the mind; for it is suitable to the mind that it should admit of no error or falsehood, and to explanation that it should not hinder anything that can conduce to the most accurate manifestation. |
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11. Philo of Alexandria, On The Virtues, 147 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •noah, generations of, as virtues Found in books: Birnbaum and Dillon (2020), Philo of Alexandria: On the Life of Abraham: Introduction, Translation, and Commentary, 179 | 147. But, nevertheless, the lawgiver neither neglected the safety of the unclean animals, nor did he permit those which were clean to use their strength in disregard of justice, crying out and declaring loudly in express words, if one may say so, to those persons who have ears in their soul, not to injure any one of a different nation, unless they have some grounds for bringing accusations against them beyond the fact of their being of another nation, which is not ground of blame; for those things which are not wickedness, and which do not proceed from wickedness, are free from all reproach. XXVIII. |
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12. Philo of Alexandria, On The Special Laws, 2.44-2.48, 3.1-3.6, 4.69 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •noah, generations of, as virtues Found in books: Birnbaum and Dillon (2020), Philo of Alexandria: On the Life of Abraham: Introduction, Translation, and Commentary, 179, 180 | 2.44. for all those men, whether among the Greeks or among the barbarians, who are practisers of wisdom, living in a blameless and irreproachable manner, determining not to do any injustice, nor even to retaliate it when done to them, shunning all association with busy-bodies, in all the cities which they inhabit, avoid all courts of justice, and council halls, and market-places, and places of assembly, and, in short, every spot where any band or company of precipitate headstrong men is collected, 2.45. admiring, as it were, a life of peace and tranquillity, being the most devoted contemplators of nature and of all the things in it. Investigating earth and sea, and the air, and the heaven, and all the different natures in each of them; dwelling, if one may so say, in their minds, at least, with the moon, and the sun, and the whole company of the rest of the stars, both planets and fixed stars. Having their bodies, indeed, firmly planted on the earth, but having their souls furnished with wings, in order that thus hovering in the air they may closely survey all the powers above, looking upon them as in reality the most excellent of cosmopolites, who consider the whole world as their native city, and all the devotees of wisdom as their fellow citizens, virtue herself having enrolled them as such, to whom it has been entrusted to frame a constitution for their common city.XIII. 2.46. Being, therefore, full of all kinds of excellence, and being accustomed to disregard all those good things which affect the body and external circumstances, and being inured to look upon things indifferent as really indifferent, and being armed by study against the pleasures and appetites, and, in short, being always labouring to raise themselves above the passions, and being instructed to exert all their power to pull down the fortification which those appetites have built up, and being insensible to any impression which the attacks of fortune might make upon them, because they have previously estimated the power of its attacks in their anticipations (for anticipation makes even those things light which would be most terrible if unexpected 2.47. These men, however, are therefore but a small number, kindling in their different cities a sort of spark of wisdom, in order that virtue may not become utterly extinguished, and so be entirely extirpated from our race. 2.48. But if men everywhere agreed with this small number, and became, as nature originally designed that they should, all blameless and irreproachable, lovers of wisdom, delighting in all that is virtuous and honourable, and thinking that and that alone good, and looking on everything else as subordinate and slaves, as if they themselves were the masters of them, then all the cities would be full of happiness, being wholly free from all the things which are the causes of pain or fear, and full of all those which produce joy and cheerfulness. So that no time would ever cease to be the time of a happy life, but that the whole circle of the year would be one festival.XIV. 3.1. There was once a time when, devoting my leisure to philosophy and to the contemplation of the world and the things in it, I reaped the fruit of excellent, and desirable, and blessed intellectual feelings, being always living among the divine oracles and doctrines, on which I fed incessantly and insatiably, to my great delight, never entertaining any low or grovelling thoughts, nor ever wallowing in the pursuit of glory or wealth, or the delights of the body, but I appeared to be raised on high and borne aloft by a certain inspiration of the soul, and to dwell in the regions of the sun and moon, and to associate with the whole heaven, and the whole universal world. 3.2. At that time, therefore, looking down from above, from the air, and straining the eye of my mind as from a watch-tower, I surveyed the unspeakable contemplation of all the things on the earth, and looked upon myself as happy as having forcibly escaped from all the evil fates that can attack human life. 3.3. Nevertheless, the most grievous of all evils was lying in wait for me, namely, envy, that hates every thing that is good, and which, suddenly attacking me, did not cease from dragging me after it by force till it had taken me and thrown me into the vast sea of the cares of public politics, in which I was and still am tossed about without being able to keep myself swimming at the top. 3.4. But though I groan at my fate, I still hold out and resist, retaining in my soul that desire of instruction which has been implanted in it from my earliest youth, and this desire taking pity and compassion on me continually raises me up and alleviates my sorrow. And it is through this fondness for learning that I at times lift up my head, and with the eyes of my soul, which are indeed dim (for the mist of affairs, wholly inconsistent with their proper objects, has overshadowed their acute clear-sightedne 3.5. And if at any time unexpectedly there shall arise a brief period of tranquillity, and a short calm and respite from the troubles which arise from state affairs, I then rise aloft and float above the troubled waves, soaring as it were in the air, and being, I may almost say, blown forward by the breezes of knowledge, which often persuades me to flee away, and to pass all my days with her, escaping as it were from my pitiless masters, not men only, but also affairs which pour upon me from all quarters and at all times like a torrent. 3.6. But even in these circumstances I ought to give thanks to God, that though I am so overwhelmed by this flood, I am not wholly sunk and swallowed up in the depths. But I open the eyes of my soul, which from an utter despair of any good hope had been believed to have been before now wholly darkened, and I am irradiated with the light of wisdom, since I am not given up for the whole of my life to darkness. Behold, therefore, I venture not only to study the sacred commands of Moses, but also with an ardent love of knowledge to investigate each separate one of them, and to endeavour to reveal and to explain to those who wish to understand them, things concerning them which are not known to the multitude.II. 4.69. And what in life is there equally beautiful with truth, which the all-wise legislator erected in the most sacred place, in that part of the dress of the chief priest, where the domit part of the soul lies, wishing to adorn it with the most beautiful and glorious of all ornaments? And next to truth he has placed power as akin to it, which he has in this case called manifestation, being the two images of the two kinds of speech which exist in us, the secret speech and the lettered speech, for the lettered speech requires manifestation, by which the secret thoughts in all our hearts are made known to our neighbour, but the secret speech has need of truth for the perfection of life and actions, by means of which the road to happiness is found out.XII. |
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13. Philo of Alexandria, On Dreams, 2.165 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •noah, generations of, as virtues Found in books: Birnbaum and Dillon (2020), Philo of Alexandria: On the Life of Abraham: Introduction, Translation, and Commentary, 180 | 2.165. For in the case of some men, it relaxes the sternness and moroseness of their character, and relieves them of their cares, and assuages their anger and their sorrow, and brings their dispositions into a milder mood, and makes their souls placable. But of others again, it cherishes the angry passions, and binds their pain firmly, and excites their feelings of love, and stimulates their rudeness; rendering the mouth talkative, their tongue unbridled, emancipating their external senses from all restraint, rendering their passions furious, and their whole mind violent and excited towards every object. |
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14. Philo of Alexandria, On Curses, 23 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •noah, virtues of Found in books: Birnbaum and Dillon (2020), Philo of Alexandria: On the Life of Abraham: Introduction, Translation, and Commentary, 175 | 23. But the connection of the consequence affects me in no moderate degree; for it happens that that which comes near to him who is standing still longs for tranquillity, as being something which resembles itself. Now that which stands still without any deviation is God, and that which is moved is the creature, so that he who comes near to God desires stability; but he who departs from him, as by so doing he is approaching a creature easily overturned, is borne towards that which resembles it. VIII. |
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| 15. Philo of Alexandria, On Planting, 43 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •noah, generations of, as virtues Found in books: Birnbaum and Dillon (2020), Philo of Alexandria: On the Life of Abraham: Introduction, Translation, and Commentary, 180 |
16. Philo of Alexandria, On The Creation of The World, 69, 83 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Birnbaum and Dillon (2020), Philo of Alexandria: On the Life of Abraham: Introduction, Translation, and Commentary, 180 | 83. And besides all this, another is also mentioned among the necessary causes. It was necessary that man should be the last of all created beings; in order that being so, and appearing suddenly, he might strike terror into the other animals. For it was fitting that they, as soon as they first saw him should admire and worship him, as their natural ruler and master; on which account, they all, as soon as they saw him, became tame before him; even those, who by nature were most savage, becoming at once most manageable at the first sight of him; displaying their unbridled ferocity to one another, and being tame to man alone. |
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17. Philo of Alexandria, On The Confusion of Tongues, 43 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •noah, generations of, as virtues Found in books: Birnbaum and Dillon (2020), Philo of Alexandria: On the Life of Abraham: Introduction, Translation, and Commentary, 179 | 43. but they who rejoice in one kind alone, and who honour one as their father, namely right reason, admiring the wellarranged and all-musical harmony of the virtues, live a tranquil and peaceful life, not an inactive and ignoble one, as some persons think, but one of great manliness, and sharpened, and vigorous against those who endeavour to break the confederacy which they have formed, and who are always studying to bring about a violation of the oaths which have been taken; for it has come to pass that the men of peace have become men of war, sitting down to attack and to oppose them who seek to overturn the firmness of the soul. XII. |
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| 18. Philo of Alexandria, On The Preliminary Studies, 154 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •noah, generations of, as virtues Found in books: Birnbaum and Dillon (2020), Philo of Alexandria: On the Life of Abraham: Introduction, Translation, and Commentary, 179 |
19. Philo of Alexandria, That God Is Unchangeable, 117-118, 116 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Birnbaum and Dillon (2020), Philo of Alexandria: On the Life of Abraham: Introduction, Translation, and Commentary, 180 | 116. Reject therefore with all your might all idea of pleasing the keepers of the prison; but on the contrary, with all your ability and all your earnestness, labour to please him who is the cause of all things; and if you are unable to do so, (for the greatness of his dignity is exceeding high), at all events advance, without ever turning back, towards his powers, and present yourself to them as their suppliant, until they admitting the continual assiduity and sincerity of your service, place you in the ranks of those who have pleased them, as they did Noah, of whose descendants Moses has made a most admirable and novel catalogue; |
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20. Ovid, Metamorphoses, 1.313-1.415 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •noah, virtues of Found in books: Birnbaum and Dillon (2020), Philo of Alexandria: On the Life of Abraham: Introduction, Translation, and Commentary, 175| 1.313. Separat Aonios Oetaeis Phocis ab arvis, 1.314. terra ferax, dum terra fuit, sed tempore in illo 1.315. pars maris et latus subitarum campus aquarum. 1.316. Mons ibi verticibus petit arduus astra duobus, 1.317. nomine Parnasus, superantque cacumina nubes. 1.318. Hic ubi Deucalion (nam cetera texerat aequor) 1.319. cum consorte tori parva rate vectus adhaesit, 1.320. Corycidas nymphas et numina montis adorant 1.321. fatidicamque Themin, quae tunc oracla tenebat. 1.322. Non illo melior quisquam nec amantior aequi 1.323. vir fuit aut illa metuentior ulla deorum. 1.324. Iuppiter ut liquidis stagnare paludibus orbem 1.325. et superesse virum de tot modo milibus unum, 1.326. et superesse videt de tot modo milibus unam, 1.327. innocuos ambo, cultores numinis ambo, 1.328. nubila disiecit nimbisque aquilone remotis 1.329. et caelo terras ostendit et aethera terris. 1.330. Nec maris ira manet, positoque tricuspide telo 1.331. mulcet aquas rector pelagi supraque profundum 1.332. exstantem atque umeros innato murice tectum 1.333. caeruleum Tritona vocat conchaeque soti 1.334. inspirare iubet fluctusque et flumina signo 1.335. iam revocare dato. Cava bucina sumitur illi, 1.336. tortilis, in latum quae turbine crescit ab imo, 1.337. bucina, quae medio concepit ubi aera ponto, 1.338. litora voce replet sub utroque iacentia Phoebo. 1.339. Tunc quoque, ut ora dei madida rorantia barba 1.340. contigit et cecinit iussos inflata receptus, 1.341. omnibus audita est telluris et aequoris undis, 1.342. et quibus est undis audita, coercuit omnes. 1.343. Iam mare litus habet, plenos capit alveus amnes, 1.344. flumina subsidunt collesque exire videntur, 1.345. surgit humus, crescunt loca decrescentibus undis, 1.346. postque diem longam nudata cacumina silvae 1.347. ostendunt limumque tenent in fronde relictum. 1.348. Redditus orbis erat. Quem postquam vidit iem 1.349. et desolatas agere alta silentia terras, 1.350. Deucalion lacrimis ita Pyrrham adfatur obortis: 1.351. “O soror, o coniunx, o femina sola superstes, 1.352. quam commune mihi genus et patruelis origo, 1.353. deinde torus iunxit, nunc ipsa pericula iungunt, 1.354. terrarum, quascumque vident occasus et ortus, 1.355. nos duo turba sumus; possedit cetera pontus. 1.356. Haec quoque adhuc vitae non est fiducia nostrae 1.357. certa satis; terrent etiam nunc nubila mentem. 1.358. Quis tibi, si sine me fatis erepta fuisses, 1.359. nunc animus, miseranda, foret? quo sola timorem 1.360. ferre modo posses? quo consolante doleres? 1.361. Namque ego (crede mihi) si te quoque pontus haberet, 1.362. te sequerer, coniunx, et me quoque pontus haberet. 1.363. O utinam possim populos reparare paternis 1.364. artibus atque animas formatae infundere terrae! 1.365. Nunc genus in nobis restat mortale duobus 1.366. (sic visum superis) hominumque exempla manemus.” 1.367. Dixerat, et flebant. Placuit caeleste precari 1.368. numen et auxilium per sacras quaerere sortes. 1.369. Nulla mora est: adeunt pariter Cephisidas undas, 1.370. ut nondum liquidas, sic iam vada nota secantes. 1.371. Inde ubi libatos inroravere liquores 1.372. vestibus et capiti, flectunt vestigia sanctae 1.373. ad delubra deae, quorum fastigia turpi 1.374. pallebant musco stabantque sine ignibus arae. 1.375. Ut templi tetigere gradus, procumbit uterque 1.376. pronus humi gelidoque pavens dedit oscula saxo 1.377. atque ita “si precibus” dixerunt “numina iustis 1.378. victa remollescunt, si flectitur ira deorum, 1.379. dic, Themi, qua generis damnum reparabile nostri 1.380. arte sit, et mersis fer opem, mitissima, rebus.” 1.381. Mota dea est sortemque dedit: “Discedite templo 1.382. et velate caput cinctasque resolvite vestes 1.383. ossaque post tergum magnae iactate parentis.” 1.384. Obstipuere diu, rumpitque silentia voce 1.385. Pyrrha prior iussisque deae parere recusat, 1.386. detque sibi veniam pavido rogat ore, pavetque 1.387. laedere iactatis maternas ossibus umbras. 1.388. Interea repetunt caecis obscura latebris 1.389. verba datae sortis secum inter seque volutant. 1.390. Inde Promethides placidis Epimethida dictis 1.391. mulcet et “aut fallax” ait “est sollertia nobis, 1.392. aut pia sunt nullumque nefas oracula suadent. 1.393. Magna parens terra est, lapides in corpore terrae 1.394. ossa reor dici; iacere hos post terga iubemur.” 1.395. Coniugis augurio quamquam Titania mota est, 1.396. spes tamen in dubio est: adeo caelestibus ambo 1.397. diffidunt monitis. Sed quid temptare nocebit? 1.398. Discedunt velantque caput tunicasque recingunt 1.399. et iussos lapides sua post vestigia mittunt. 1.400. Saxa (quis hoc credat, nisi sit pro teste vetustas?) 1.401. ponere duritiem coepere suumque rigorem 1.402. mollirique mora mollitaque ducere formam. 1.403. Mox ubi creverunt naturaque mitior illis 1.404. contigit, ut quaedam, sic non manifesta, videri 1.405. forma potest hominis, sed, uti de marmore coepta, 1.406. non exacta satis rudibusque simillima signis. 1.407. Quae tamen ex illis aliquo pars umida suco 1.408. et terrena fuit, versa est in corporis usum; 1.409. quod solidum est flectique nequit, mutatur in ossa; 1.410. quae modo vena fuit, sub eodem nomine mansit; 1.411. inque brevi spatio superorum numine saxa 1.412. missa viri manibus faciem traxere virorum, 1.413. et de femineo reparata est femina iactu. 1.414. Inde genus durum sumus experiensque laborum 1.415. et documenta damus qua simus origine nati. | |
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| 21. Philo of Alexandria, Plant., 43 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •noah, generations of, as virtues Found in books: Birnbaum and Dillon (2020), Philo of Alexandria: On the Life of Abraham: Introduction, Translation, and Commentary, 180 |
22. Philo of Alexandria, On Flight And Finding, 50 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •noah, generations of, as virtues Found in books: Birnbaum and Dillon (2020), Philo of Alexandria: On the Life of Abraham: Introduction, Translation, and Commentary, 179 | 50. for you will find the house of wisdom a calm and secure haven, which will gladly receive you when you are anchored within it. But Bethuel in the sacred scriptures is called wisdom; and this name, being translated, means "the daughter of God;" and the legitimate daughter, always a virgin, having received a nature which shall never be touched or defiled, both on account of her own orderly decency, and also because of the high dignity of her Father. |
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23. Anon., Genesis Rabba, 30.6-30.7 (2nd cent. CE - 5th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •noah, generations of, as virtues Found in books: Birnbaum and Dillon (2020), Philo of Alexandria: On the Life of Abraham: Introduction, Translation, and Commentary, 180| 30.6. אֵלֶּה תּוֹלְדֹת נֹחַ, הֲדָא הוּא דִכְתִיב (משלי יא, ל): פְּרִי צַדִּיק עֵץ חַיִּים, מָה הֵן פֵּרוֹתָיו שֶׁל צַדִּיק מִצְווֹת וּמַעֲשִׂים טוֹבִים, (משלי יא, ל): וְלֹקֵחַ נְפָשׁוֹת חָכָם, שֶׁזָּן וּמְפַרְנֵס כָּל שְׁנֵים עָשָׂר חֹדֶשׁ בַּתֵּבָה, אַחַר כָּל הַשֶּׁבַח הַזֶּה (משלי יא, לא): הֵן צַדִּיק בָּאָרֶץ יְשֻׁלָּם, בָּא לָצֵאת וְנִשְׁתַּלֵּם, אֶתְמָהָא, דְּאָמַר רַב הוּנָא מִשּׁוּם רַבִּי אֱלִיעֶזֶר בְּנוֹ שֶׁל רַבִּי יוֹסֵי הַגְּלִילִי, נֹחַ כְּשֶׁהָיָה יוֹצֵא מִן הַתֵּבָה הִכִּישׁוֹ אֲרִי וְשִׁבְּרוֹ, וְלֹא הָיָה כָּשֵׁר לְהַקְרִיב, וְהִקְרִיב שֵׁם בְּנוֹ תַּחְתָּיו, קַל וָחֹמֶר (משלי יא, לא): אַף כִּי רָשָׁע וְחוֹטֵא, זֶה דּוֹר הַמַּבּוּל. 30.7. אִישׁ, כָּל מָקוֹם שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר אִישׁ, צַדִּיק וּמֻמְחֶה, שֶׁכָּל מֵאָה וְעֶשְׂרִים שָׁנָה הָיָה נֹחַ נוֹטֵעַ אֲרָזִים וְקוֹצְצָן, אָמְרוּ לוֹ לָמָּה כְדֵין, אֲמַר לְהוֹן כָּךְ אָמַר מָארֵיהּ דְעָלְמָא דְּהוּא מַיְתֵי מַבּוּלָא עַל עַלְמָא, אָמְרוּ לֵיהּ אִין אֵיתֵי מַבּוּלָא לָא אָתֵי אֶלָּא עַל בֵּיתֵיהּ דְּהַהוּא גַּבְרָא, כֵּיוָן שֶׁמֵּת מְתוּשֶׁלַח אָמְרוּ לוֹ הָא לָא אָתֵי מַבּוּלָא אֶלָּא עַל בֵּיתֵיהּ דְּהַהוּא גַּבְרָא, הֲדָא הוּא דִכְתִיב (איוב יב, ה): לַפִּיד בּוּז לְעַשְׁתּוּת שַׁאֲנָן נָכוֹן לְמוֹעֲדֵי רָגֶל, אָמַר רַבִּי אַבָּא בַּר כַּהֲנָא כָּרוֹז אֶחָד עָמַד לִי בְּדוֹר הַמַּבּוּל, זֶה נֹחַ, תַּמָּן אָמְרִין כָּרוֹז לֵיהּ לַפִּיד לֵיהּ, בּוּז, שֶׁהָיוּ מְבַזִּים עָלָיו וְקָרוֹ לֵיהּ בִּיזַיָא סָבָא, לְעַשְׁתּוּת שַׁאֲנָן, שֶׁהָיוּ קָשִׁים כַּעֲשָׁתוֹת. נָכוֹן לְמוֹעֲדֵי רָגֶל, שֶׁהָיוּ מוּכָנִים לִשְׁנֵי שְׁבָרִים לְשֶׁבֶר מִלְּמַעְלָה וּלְשֶׁבֶר מִלְּמַטָּה. | 30.6. "... And one who acquires souls is wise”—this is Noach, who acquired souls, and was nourishing them and feeding them . . . The twelve months that Noach did in the ark, he did not taste the taste of sleep, not in the day and not in the night, for he was busy feeding the souls that were with him, so “one who acquires souls”, this is Noach.", 30.7. "... For one hundred and twenty years Noach planted cedars and cut them down", |
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| 24. Eusebius of Caesarea, Preparation For The Gospel, 13.12.12 (3rd cent. CE - 4th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •noah, generations of, as virtues Found in books: Birnbaum and Dillon (2020), Philo of Alexandria: On the Life of Abraham: Introduction, Translation, and Commentary, 179 |
| 25. Theaetetus, Timaeus, None Tagged with subjects: •noah, virtues of Found in books: Birnbaum and Dillon (2020), Philo of Alexandria: On the Life of Abraham: Introduction, Translation, and Commentary, 175 |
| 26. Aristobulus, Ap. Euseb. Praep. Evang., 13.12.12 Tagged with subjects: •noah, generations of, as virtues •noah, virtues of Found in books: Birnbaum and Dillon (2020), Philo of Alexandria: On the Life of Abraham: Introduction, Translation, and Commentary, 174, 179 |
| 27. Anon., Tanhuma, None Tagged with subjects: •noah, generations of, as virtues Found in books: Birnbaum and Dillon (2020), Philo of Alexandria: On the Life of Abraham: Introduction, Translation, and Commentary, 180 |
| 28. Stoic School, Stoicor. Veter. Fragm., 1.222-1.223, 3.630, 3.635 Tagged with subjects: •noah, generations of, as virtues Found in books: Birnbaum and Dillon (2020), Philo of Alexandria: On the Life of Abraham: Introduction, Translation, and Commentary, 180 |
