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On the Sacrifice of Abel and Cain

Philo of Alexandria · Parte 94

[94] [cap.29] Why, then, has this hierophant thought fit to introduce him as swearing? That he might demonstrate the weakness of the created being, and after he had demonstrated it, might comfort him: for we are not able at all times to have ready in our soul that principal fact which ought to be remembered concerning God, namely, that "God is not as a man," [88] So that we may rise above those assertions which are advanced concerning man;