1. Hebrew Bible, Genesis, 5.22, 5.24, 5.29, 6.5-6.6, 6.8-6.9, 6.11-6.13, 7.11 (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, 174, 181, 182, 187| 5.22. "וַיִּתְהַלֵּךְ חֲנוֹךְ אֶת־הָאֱלֹהִים אַחֲרֵי הוֹלִידוֹ אֶת־מְתוּשֶׁלַח שְׁלֹשׁ מֵאוֹת שָׁנָה וַיּוֹלֶד בָּנִים וּבָנוֹת׃", 5.24. "וַיִּתְהַלֵּךְ חֲנוֹךְ אֶת־הָאֱלֹהִים וְאֵינֶנּוּ כִּי־לָקַח אֹתוֹ אֱלֹהִים׃", 5.29. "וַיִּקְרָא אֶת־שְׁמוֹ נֹחַ לֵאמֹר זֶה יְנַחֲמֵנוּ מִמַּעֲשֵׂנוּ וּמֵעִצְּבוֹן יָדֵינוּ מִן־הָאֲדָמָה אֲשֶׁר אֵרְרָהּ יְהוָה׃", 6.5. "וַיַּרְא יְהוָה כִּי רַבָּה רָעַת הָאָדָם בָּאָרֶץ וְכָל־יֵצֶר מַחְשְׁבֹת לִבּוֹ רַק רַע כָּל־הַיּוֹם׃", 6.6. "וַיִּנָּחֶם יְהוָה כִּי־עָשָׂה אֶת־הָאָדָם בָּאָרֶץ וַיִּתְעַצֵּב אֶל־לִבּוֹ׃", 6.8. "וְנֹחַ מָצָא חֵן בְּעֵינֵי יְהוָה׃", 6.9. "אֵלֶּה תּוֹלְדֹת נֹחַ נֹחַ אִישׁ צַדִּיק תָּמִים הָיָה בְּדֹרֹתָיו אֶת־הָאֱלֹהִים הִתְהַלֶּךְ־נֹחַ׃", 6.11. "וַתִּשָּׁחֵת הָאָרֶץ לִפְנֵי הָאֱלֹהִים וַתִּמָּלֵא הָאָרֶץ חָמָס׃", 6.12. "וַיַּרְא אֱלֹהִים אֶת־הָאָרֶץ וְהִנֵּה נִשְׁחָתָה כִּי־הִשְׁחִית כָּל־בָּשָׂר אֶת־דַּרְכּוֹ עַל־הָאָרֶץ׃", 6.13. "וַיֹּאמֶר אֱלֹהִים לְנֹחַ קֵץ כָּל־בָּשָׂר בָּא לְפָנַי כִּי־מָלְאָה הָאָרֶץ חָמָס מִפְּנֵיהֶם וְהִנְנִי מַשְׁחִיתָם אֶת־הָאָרֶץ׃", 7.11. "בִּשְׁנַת שֵׁשׁ־מֵאוֹת שָׁנָה לְחַיֵּי־נֹחַ בַּחֹדֶשׁ הַשֵּׁנִי בְּשִׁבְעָה־עָשָׂר יוֹם לַחֹדֶשׁ בַּיּוֹם הַזֶּה נִבְקְעוּ כָּל־מַעְיְנֹת תְּהוֹם רַבָּה וַאֲרֻבֹּת הַשָּׁמַיִם נִפְתָּחוּ׃", | 5.22. "And Enoch walked with God after he begot Methuselah three hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.", 5.24. "And Enoch walked with God, and he was not; for God took him.", 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.’", 6.5. "And the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.", 6.6. "And it repented the LORD that He had made man on the earth, and it grieved Him at His heart.", 6.8. "But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.", 6.9. "These are the generations of Noah. Noah was in his generations a man righteous and wholehearted; Noah walked with God.", 6.11. "And the earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.", 6.12. "And God saw the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth. .", 6.13. "And God said unto Noah: ‘The end of all flesh is come before Me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.", 7.11. "In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.", |
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| 2. Plato, Republic, 151 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •perfection, relative Found in books: Birnbaum and Dillon (2020), Philo of Alexandria: On the Life of Abraham: Introduction, Translation, and Commentary, 182 |
| 3. Plato, Laws, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •perfection, relative Found in books: Birnbaum and Dillon (2020), Philo of Alexandria: On the Life of Abraham: Introduction, Translation, and Commentary, 175 |
| 4. Plato, Philebus, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •perfection, relative Found in books: Birnbaum and Dillon (2020), Philo of Alexandria: On the Life of Abraham: Introduction, Translation, and Commentary, 182 |
| 5. Septuagint, Ecclesiasticus (Siracides), 17.5 (2nd cent. BCE - 2nd cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •perfection, relative Found in books: Birnbaum and Dillon (2020), Philo of Alexandria: On the Life of Abraham: Introduction, Translation, and Commentary, 174 |
6. Philo of Alexandria, That God Is Unchangeable, 118 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •perfection, relative Found in books: Birnbaum and Dillon (2020), Philo of Alexandria: On the Life of Abraham: Introduction, Translation, and Commentary, 181 | 118. but such things are not the appropriate offspring of a good mind; the progeny of that are the virtues before mentioned, namely the being a man, the being just, the being perfect, the pleasing God, which last particular, inasmuch as it is the crowning one, and as it were the boundary of perfect happiness, is enumerated last of all. |
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| 7. Philo of Alexandria, Questions On Genesis, 1.92, 1.94, 1.96, 2.9 (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, 182, 187 |
| 8. Philo of Alexandria, Allegorical Interpretation, 3.77-3.78 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •perfection, relative Found in books: Birnbaum and Dillon (2020), Philo of Alexandria: On the Life of Abraham: Introduction, Translation, and Commentary, 181 |
9. Philo of Alexandria, On The Life of Moses, 2.54, 2.60, 2.65 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •perfection, relative Found in books: Birnbaum and Dillon (2020), Philo of Alexandria: On the Life of Abraham: Introduction, Translation, and Commentary, 187 | 2.54. The seas were raised up, and the rivers both such as flow everlastingly, and the winter torrents were swollen and washed away, and carried off all the cities in the plain; and those in the mountain country were destroyed by incessant and irresistible impetuosity of rain, ceasing neither by day nor by night, 2.60. For he, being considered a fit man, not only to be exempted from the common calamity which was to overwhelm the world, but also to be himself the beginning of a second generation of men, in obedience to the divine commands which were conveyed to him by the word of God, built a most enormous fabric of wood, three hundred cubits in length, and fifty in width, and thirty in height, and having prepared a number of connected chambers within it, both on the ground floor and in the upper story, the whole building consisting of three, and in some parts of four stories, and having prepared food, brought into it some of every description of animals, beasts and also birds, both male and female, in order to preserve a means of propagating the different species in the times that should come hereafter; 2.65. These are the rewards and honours for pre-eminent excellence given to good men, by means of which, not only did they themselves and their families obtain safety, having escaped from the greatest dangers which were thus aimed against all men all over the earth, by the change in the character of the elements; but they became also the founders of a new generation, and the chiefs of a second period of the world, being left behind as sparks of the most excellent kind of creatures, namely, of men, man having received the supremacy over all earthly creatures whatsoever, being a kind of copy of the powers of God, a visible image of his invisible nature, a created image of an uncreated and immortal Original.{1}{yonge's translation includes a separate treatise title at this point: On the Life of Moses, That Is to Say, On the Theology and Prophetic office of Moses, Book III. Accordingly, his next paragraph begins with roman numeral I (= XIII in the Loeb |
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10. Philo of Alexandria, On The Virtues, 201, 184 (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, 181 | 184. For when such as the words are, such also is the mind; and when such as the counsels are, such likewise are the actions; then life is praiseworthy and perfect. But when these things are all at variance with one another life is imperfect and blameable, unless some one who is at the same time a lover of God and beloved by God takes it in hand and produces this harmony. For which reason this oracular declaration was given with great propriety, and in perfect accordance with what has been said above,"Thou hast this day chosen the Lord to be thy God, and the Lord has this day chosen thee to be his people." |
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11. Philo of Alexandria, On The Special Laws, 1.17, 1.38 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •perfection, relative Found in books: Birnbaum and Dillon (2020), Philo of Alexandria: On the Life of Abraham: Introduction, Translation, and Commentary, 182 | 1.17. But if they had taken pains to travel along the straight and true road, they would soon have known that just as the outward sense is the subordinate minister of the mind, so in the same manner all the objects of the outward senses are servants of that which is appreciable only by intellect, being well contented if they can attain to the second place in honour. 1.38. But he does not on that account faint and renounce the task which he has undertaken, but goes on with invincible determination towards the sight which he considers attainable, as if he were a competitor at the games, and were striving for the second prize, though he has missed the first. And guess and conjecture are inferior to true perception, as are all those notions which are classed under the description of reasonable and plausible opinions. |
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12. Philo of Alexandria, On Curses, 22-23, 6, 24 (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, 181 | 24. On this account it is written in the curses contained in scripture, "Thou shalt never rest; nor shall there be any rest for the sole of thy Foot." And, a little afterwards, we read that, "Thy life shall hang in doubt before Them." For it is the nature of the foolish man, who is always being tossed about in a manner contrary to right reason, to be hostile to tranquillity and rest, and not to stand firmly or with a sure foundation on any doctrine whatever. |
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13. Philo of Alexandria, On The Creation of The World, 152 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •perfection, relative Found in books: Birnbaum and Dillon (2020), Philo of Alexandria: On the Life of Abraham: Introduction, Translation, and Commentary, 181 | 152. And she, in like manner, beholding a creature greatly resembling herself, rejoiced also, and addressed him in reply with due modesty. And love being engendered, and, as it were, uniting two separate portions of one animal into one body, adapted them to each other, implanting in each of them a desire of connection with the other with a view to the generation of a being similar to themselves. And this desire caused likewise pleasure to their bodies, which is the beginning of iniquities and transgressions, and it is owing to this that men have exchanged their previously immortal and happy existence for one which is mortal and full of misfortune. LVI. |
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14. Philo of Alexandria, On Flight And Finding, 192 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •perfection, relative Found in books: Birnbaum and Dillon (2020), Philo of Alexandria: On the Life of Abraham: Introduction, Translation, and Commentary, 187 | 192. This is that great deluge in which "the cataracts of heaven were opened"58--by heaven I here mean the mind--and the fountains of the bottomless pit were revealed; that is to say, of the outward sense; for in this way alone is the soul overwhelmed, iniquities being broken up and poured over it from above, as from the heaven of the mind, and the passions irrigating it from below, as from the earth of the outward senses. |
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15. Ovid, Metamorphoses, 1.313-1.415 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •perfection, relative 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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16. Philo of Alexandria, On Husbandry, 111-114, 116-123, 115 (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, 181 | 115. But what man in his senses would not laugh at the other competitions of runners, and candidates for the prize in the pentathlum, to see men studying with all their energies to leap the longest distance, and measuring spaces and distances, and contending with one another in swiftness of foot? men whom, not only those more active animals, an antelope, or a deer, but even the very smallest beasts, such as a dog, or a hare, without making any extraordinary haste, would outrun, though they were to exert themselves with all their speed, and to put themselves out of breath. |
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17. Theophilus, To Autolycus, 3.19 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •perfection, relative Found in books: Birnbaum and Dillon (2020), Philo of Alexandria: On the Life of Abraham: Introduction, Translation, and Commentary, 187 | 3.19. And neither does he make out that there was a second flood: on the contrary, he said that never again would there be a flood of water on the world; as neither indeed has there been, nor ever shall be. And he says that eight human beings were preserved in the ark, in that which had been prepared by God's direction, not by Deucalion, but by Noah; which Hebrew word means rest, as we have elsewhere shown that Noah, when he announced to the men then alive that there was a flood coming, prophesied to them, saying, Come there, God calls you to repentance. On this account he was fitly called Deucalion. And this Noah had three sons (as we mentioned in the second book), whose names were Shem, and Ham, and Japhet; and these had three wives, one wife each; each man and his wife. This man some have surnamed Eunuchus. All the eight persons, therefore, who were found in the ark were preserved. And Moses showed that the flood lasted forty days and forty nights, torrents pouring from heaven, and from the fountains of the deep breaking up, so that the water overtopped every high hill 15 cubits. And thus the race of all the men that then were was destroyed, and those only who were protected in the ark were saved; and these, we have already said, were eight. And of the ark, the remains are to this day to be seen in the Arabian mountains. This, then, is in sum the history of the deluge. |
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18. Justin, Dialogue With Trypho, 138 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •perfection, relative Found in books: Birnbaum and Dillon (2020), Philo of Alexandria: On the Life of Abraham: Introduction, Translation, and Commentary, 187 | 138. Noah is a figure of Christ, who has regenerated us by water, and faith, and wood: [i.e., the cross.] Justin: You know, then, sirs, that God has said in Isaiah to Jerusalem: 'I saved you in the deluge of Noah.' By this which God said was meant that the mystery of saved men appeared in the deluge. For righteous Noah, along with the other mortals at the deluge, i.e., with his own wife, his three sons and their wives, being eight in number, were a symbol of the eighth day, wherein Christ appeared when He rose from the dead, for ever the first in power. For Christ, being the first-born of every creature, became again the chief of another race regenerated by Himself through water, and faith, and wood, containing the mystery of the cross; even as Noah was saved by wood when he rode over the waters with his household. Accordingly, when the prophet says, 'I saved you in the times of Noah,' as I have already remarked, he addresses the people who are equally faithful to God, and possess the same signs. For when Moses had the rod in his hands, he led your nation through the sea. And you believe that this was spoken to your nation only, or to the land. But the whole earth, as the Scripture says, was inundated, and the water rose in height fifteen cubits above all the mountains: so that it is evident this was not spoken to the land, but to the people who obeyed Him: for whom also He had before prepared a resting-place in Jerusalem, as was previously demonstrated by all the symbols of the deluge; I mean, that by water, faith, and wood, those who are afore-prepared, and who repent of the sins which they have committed, shall escape from the impending judgment of God. |
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19. Anon., Genesis Rabba, 30.8-30.9 (2nd cent. CE - 5th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •perfection, relative Found in books: Birnbaum and Dillon (2020), Philo of Alexandria: On the Life of Abraham: Introduction, Translation, and Commentary, 181| 30.8. תָּמִים הָיָה בְּדֹרֹתָיו (בראשית ו, ט), בַּר חַטְיָיא אָמַר כָּל מִי שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר בּוֹ תָּמִים, הִשְּׁלִים שָׁנָיו לְמִדַּת שָׁבוּעַ. הָיָה, אָמַר רַבִּי יוֹחָנָן כָּל מִי שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר בּוֹ הָיָה, מִתְּחִלָּתוֹ וְעַד סוֹפוֹ הוּא צַדִּיק. הֲתִיבוּן לֵיהּ וְהָכְתִיב (יחזקאל לג, כד): אֶחָד הָיָה אַבְרָהָם וַיִּירַשׁ אֶת הָאָרֶץ, מֵעַתָּה הוּא תְּחִלָּתוֹ וְהוּא סוֹפוֹ. אֲמַר לְהוֹן אַף הִיא לָא תַבְרָא, דְּהָא רַבִּי לֵוִי בְּשֵׁם רֵישׁ לָקִישׁ אָמַר בֶּן שָׁלשׁ שָׁנִים הִכִּיר אַבְרָהָם אֶת בּוֹרְאוֹ וכו', רַבִּי חֲנִינָא וְרַבִּי יוֹחָנָן תַּרְוֵיהוֹן אָמְרִין בֶּן אַרְבָּעִים וּשְׁמוֹנֶה שָׁנָה הִכִּיר אַבְרָהָם אֶת בּוֹרְאוֹ, וּמַה אֲנִי מְקַיֵּם הָיָה, שֶׁהָיָה מְתֻקָּן לְהַדְרִיךְ כָּל הָעוֹלָם כֻּלּוֹ בִּתְשׁוּבָה. (בראשית ג, כב): הֵן הָאָדָם הָיָה, מְתֻקָּן לְמִיתָה, נָחָשׁ (בראשית ג, א): הָיָה, מְתֻקָּן לְפֻרְעָנוּת, קַיִן (בראשית ד, ב): הָיָה, מְתֻקָּן לְגָלוּת, אִיּוֹב (איוב א, א): הָיָה, מְתֻקָּן לְיִסּוּרִין, נֹחַ הָיָה, מְתֻקָּן לַנֵּס, משֶׁה (שמות ג, א): הָיָה, מְתֻקָּן לַגּוֹאֵל, מָרְדְּכַי (אסתר ב, ה): הָיָה, מְתֻקָּן לִגְאֻלָּה. רַבִּי לֵוִי וְרַבָּנָן, רַבִּי לֵוִי אָמַר כָּל מִי שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר בּוֹ הָיָה, רָאָה עוֹלָם חָדָשׁ, אָמַר רַבִּי שְׁמוּאֵל חֲמִשָּׁה הֵן: נֹחַ, אֶתְמוֹל (איוב יד, יט): אֲבָנִים שָׁחֲקוּ מַיִם, דְּאָמַר רַבִּי לֵוִי בְּשֵׁם רַבִּי יוֹחָנָן אֲפִלּוּ אִצְטְרֻבָּלִין שֶׁל רֵחַיִם נִמְחֶה בַּמַּיִם, וְהָכָא אַתְּ אָמַר (בראשית ט, יח): וַיִּהְיוּ בְנֵי נֹחַ הַיֹּצְאִים מִן הַתֵּבָה, אֶתְמָהָא, אֶלָּא רָאָה עוֹלָם חָדָשׁ. יוֹסֵף (תהלים קה, יח): עִנּוּ בַכֶּבֶל רַגְלוֹ, וְעַכְשָׁו (בראשית מב, ו): וְיוֹסֵף הוּא הַשַּׁלִּיט, אֶלָּא שֶׁרָאָה עוֹלָם חָדָשׁ. משֶׁה, אֶתְמוֹל בּוֹרֵחַ מִפְּנֵי פַּרְעֹה, וְעַכְשָׁו הוּא מְשַׁקְּעוֹ בַּיָּם, אֶלָּא שֶׁרָאָה עוֹלָם חָדָשׁ. אִיּוֹב, אֶתְמוֹל (איוב טז, יג): יִשְׁפֹּךְ לָאָרֶץ מְרֵרָתִי, וְעַכְשָׁו (איוב מב, י): וַיּוֹסֶף ה' אֶת כָּל אֲשֶׁר לְאִיּוֹב לְמִשְׁנֶה, אֶלָּא שֶׁרָאָה עוֹלָם חָדָשׁ. מָרְדְּכַי, אֶתְמוֹל הָיָה מְתֻקָּן לִצְלִיבָה, וְעַכְשָׁו הוּא צוֹלֵב אֶת צוֹלְבָיו, אֶלָּא שֶׁרָאָה עוֹלָם חָדָשׁ, רַבָּנָן אָמְרִין כָּל מִי שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר בּוֹ הָיָה, זָן וּמְפַרְנֵס, נֹחַ, זָן וּפִרְנֵס כָּל שְׁנֵים עָשָׂר חֹדֶשׁ, שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר (בראשית ו, כא): וְאַתָּה קַח לְךָ וגו'. יוֹסֵף (בראשית מז, יב): וַיְכַלְכֵּל יוֹסֵף אֶת אָבִיו וְאֶת אֶחָיו. משֶׁה, זָן וּפִרְנֵס אֶת יִשְׂרָאֵל אַרְבָּעִים שָׁנָה בַּמִּדְבָּר. (איוב לא, יז): וְאֹכַל פִּתִּי לְבַדִּי, שֶׁמָּא (איוב לא, יז): וְלֹא אָכַל יָתוֹם מִמֶּנָּה, אֶתְמָהָא. מָרְדְּכַי זָן וּפִרְנֵס, אָמַר רַבִּי יוּדָן פַּעַם אַחַת חִזֵּר עַל כָּל הַמֵּנִיקוֹת וְלֹא מָצָא לְאֶסְתֵּר לְאַלְתָּר מֵינִיקָה, וְהָיָה מֵינִיקָהּ הוּא, רַבִּי בֶּרֶכְיָה וְרַבִּי אַבָּהוּ בְּשֵׁם רַבִּי אֱלִיעֶזֶר בָּא לוֹ חָלָב וְהָיָה מֵינִיקָהּ. כַּד דָּרַשׁ רַבִּי אַבָּהוּ בְּצִבּוּרָא גָּחוֹךְ צִבּוּרָא לְקָלֵיהּ, אֲמַר לְהוֹן וְלָא מַתְנִיתָּא הִיא, רַבִּי שִׁמְעוֹן בֶּן אֶלְעָזָר אוֹמֵר חָלָב הַזָּכָר טָהוֹר. 30.9. בְּדֹרֹתָיו, רַבִּי יְהוּדָה וְרַבִּי נְחֶמְיָה, רַבִּי יְהוּדָה אָמַר בְּדֹרֹתָיו הָיָה צַדִּיק, הָא אִלּוּ הָיָה בְּדוֹרוֹ שֶׁל משֶׁה אוֹ בְּדוֹרוֹ שֶׁל שְׁמוּאֵל לֹא הָיָה צַדִּיק. בְּשׁוּק סְמַיָּא צָוְחִין לַעֲוִירָא סַגֵּי נְהוֹר, מָשָׁל לְאֶחָד שֶׁהָיָה לוֹ מַרְתֵּף אֶחָד שֶׁל יַיִן, פָּתַח חָבִית אַחַת וּמְצָאָהּ שֶׁל חֹמֶץ, שְׁנִיָּה כֵּן, שְׁלִישִׁית וּמְצָאָהּ קוֹסֵס, אָמְרִין לֵיהּ קוֹסֵס הוּא, אֲמַר לְהוֹן וְאִית הָכָא טַב מִינָהּ, אָמְרוּ לֵיהּ לָא. כָּךְ בְּדֹרֹתָיו הָיָה צַדִּיק הָא אִלּוּ הָיָה בְּדוֹרוֹ שֶׁל משֶׁה אוֹ בְּדוֹרוֹ שֶׁל שְׁמוּאֵל לֹא הָיָה צַדִּיק. רַבִּי נְחֶמְיָה אָמַר וּמָה אִם בְּדֹרֹתָיו הָיָה צַדִּיק, אִלּוּ הָיָה בְּדוֹרוֹ שֶׁל משֶׁה אוֹ בְּדוֹרוֹ שֶׁל שְׁמוּאֵל עַל אַחַת כַּמָּה וְכַמָּה, מָשָׁל לִצְלוֹחִית שֶׁל אֲפַרְסְמוֹן מֻקֶּפֶת צָמִיד פָּתִיל, וּמֻנַּחַת בֵּין הַקְּבָרוֹת, וְהָיָה רֵיחָהּ נוֹדֵף, וְאִלּוּ הָיָה חוּץ לַקְּבָרוֹת עַל אַחַת כַּמָּה וְכַמָּה, מָשָׁל לִבְתוּלָה שֶׁהָיְתָה שְׁרוּיָה בְּשׁוּק שֶׁל זוֹנוֹת וְלֹא יָצָא עָלֶיהָ שֵׁם רָע, אִלּוּ הָיְתָה בְּשׁוּקָן שֶׁל כְּשֵׁרוֹת עַל אַחַת כַּמָּה וְכַמָּה, כָּךְ, וּמָה אִם בְּדֹרֹתָיו הָיָה צַדִּיק אִלּוּ הָיָה בְּדוֹרוֹ שֶׁל משֶׁה אוֹ בְּדוֹרוֹ שֶׁל שְׁמוּאֵל עַל אַחַת כַּמָּה וְכַמָּה. | |
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| 20. Origen, Homilies On Genesis, 2.3 (3rd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •perfection, relative Found in books: Birnbaum and Dillon (2020), Philo of Alexandria: On the Life of Abraham: Introduction, Translation, and Commentary, 187 |
| 21. Origen, Homiliae In Genesim (In Catenis), 2.3 (3rd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •perfection, relative Found in books: Birnbaum and Dillon (2020), Philo of Alexandria: On the Life of Abraham: Introduction, Translation, and Commentary, 187 |
| 22. Origen, Homilies On Numbers, 9.1 (3rd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •perfection, relative Found in books: Birnbaum and Dillon (2020), Philo of Alexandria: On the Life of Abraham: Introduction, Translation, and Commentary, 187 |
| 23. Anon., Apostolic Constitutions, 8.12.24 (4th cent. CE - 4th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •perfection, relative Found in books: Birnbaum and Dillon (2020), Philo of Alexandria: On the Life of Abraham: Introduction, Translation, and Commentary, 187 |
| 24. Ambrose, On Paradise, 3.9 (4th cent. CE - 4th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •perfection, relative Found in books: Birnbaum and Dillon (2020), Philo of Alexandria: On the Life of Abraham: Introduction, Translation, and Commentary, 187 |
| 25. Ambrose, On Noah And The Ark, 1.2 (4th cent. CE - 4th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •perfection, relative Found in books: Birnbaum and Dillon (2020), Philo of Alexandria: On the Life of Abraham: Introduction, Translation, and Commentary, 187 |
| 26. Jerome, Quaestionum Hebraicarum In Genesim (Hebraicarum Quaestionum In Genesim), 5.29, 6.9 (5th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •perfection, relative Found in books: Birnbaum and Dillon (2020), Philo of Alexandria: On the Life of Abraham: Introduction, Translation, and Commentary, 187 |
| 27. Theaetetus, Timaeus, None Tagged with subjects: •perfection, relative Found in books: Birnbaum and Dillon (2020), Philo of Alexandria: On the Life of Abraham: Introduction, Translation, and Commentary, 175 |
| 28. Aristobulus, Ap. Euseb. Praep. Evang., 13.12.12 Tagged with subjects: •perfection, relative Found in books: Birnbaum and Dillon (2020), Philo of Alexandria: On the Life of Abraham: Introduction, Translation, and Commentary, 174 |
