# De sacrificiis Abelis et Caini 101

Philo Judaeus, De sacrificiis Abelis et Caini, Section 101. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/philo-judaeus/de-sacrificiis-abelis-et-caini/101

ἐνίας δὲ ἀρετὰς ἡ φύσις οὕτως διακέκρικεν, ὡς μηδὲ ἐξ ἐπιτηδεύσεως εἰς κοινωνίαν ἀχθῆναι δύνασθαι· τὸ γοῦν σπείρειν καὶ γεννᾶν κατ’ ἀρετὴν ἀνδρῶν ἴδιον, οὐκ ἂν εὕροι τοῦτό γε γυνή· καὶ μὴν ἀγαθὸν οὖσαν γυναικῶν εὐτοκίαν ἀνδρὸς οὐ δέχεται φύσις. ὥστε οὐδὲ τὸ „ὡς ἄνθρωπος“ (Deut. 1,31) ἐπὶ θεοῦ κυριολογεῖται, κατάχρησις δὲ ὀνομάτων ἐστὶ παρηγοροῦσα τὴν ἡμετέραν ἀσθένειαν. ἀφελεῖς οὖν, ὦ ψυχή, πᾶν γενητὸν θνητὸν μεταβλητὸν βέβηλον ἀπὸ ἐννοίας τῆς περὶ θεοῦ τοῦ ἀγενήτου καὶ ἀφθάρτου καὶ ἀτρέπτου καὶ ἁγίου καὶ μόνου μακαρίου.

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Philo Judaeus, De sacrificiis Abelis et Caini, 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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