Philo Judaeus De Mutatione Nominum 102

ed. Paul Wendland

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[102] ὡς γὰρ τὸ εὐφυὲς ἄμεινον τοῦ μανθάνοντος — τὸ μὲν γὰρ ἔοικεν ὁράσει, τὸ δὲ ἀκοῇ· ἀκοὴ δὲ ὁράσεως p. 594 Μ. τὰ δεύτερα φέρεται —, οὕτω τὸ μνημονικὸν τοῦ ἀναμιμνῃσκομένου πανταχοῦ κρεῖττον, ὅτι τὸ μὲν λήθῃ κέκραται, τὸ δὲ
ἀμιγὲς καὶ ἄκρατον ἐξ ἀρχῆς ἄχρι τέλους διαμένει.

De Mutatione Nominum. Philo Judaeus. ed. Paul Wendland. Germany. 2014.

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

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De Mutatione Nominum (Greek) (Philo Judaeus. Opera quae supersunt, Volume 3. Wendland, Paul, editor. Berlin: Reimer, 1898.)

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On the question why certain Names in the Holy Scriptures are changed First1KGreek (The works of Philo Judaeus, the contemporary of Josephus, Volume 2. Yonge, C. D., translator. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1854.) — 102 focus

[102] For as the man of good natural endowments is better than he who is only a learner, for the one resembles the sense of seeing, the other that of hearing, and hearing is always reckoned as entitled to a lesser honour than seeing; so also, he who is endowed with a good memory is at all times superior to him who only recollects, because the one is combined with forgetfulness, but the other continues unalloyed and unadulterated from beginning to end.

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