# De Abrahamo 7

Philo Judaeus, De Abrahamo, Section 7. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/philo-judaeus/de-abrahamo/7

Ἐπειδὴ τοίνυν ἀρχὴ μετουσίας ἀγαθῶν ἐστιν ἐλπὶς καὶ ταύτην οἷα λεωφόρον ὁδὸν ἡ φιλάρετος ἀνατέμνει καὶ ἀνοίγει ψυχὴ σπουδάζουσα τυχεῖν τοῦ πρὸς ἀλήθειαν καλοῦ, τὸν πρῶτον ἐλπίδος ἐραστὴν προσεῖπεν „ἄνθρωπον“ τὸ κοινὸν τοῦ γένους ὄνομα κατ’ ἐξαίρετον χάριν δωρησάμενος αὐτῷ.

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Philo Judaeus, De Abrahamo, ed. Leopold Cohn. Text: The Greek Library, from the Perseus Digital Library and other open sources, CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: apostrophes normalised and the text divided into reading sections by Interlinea.
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