Philo Judaeus De Mutatione Nominum 105

ed. Paul Wendland

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[105] μεταβαλὼν δὲ πολλάκις ὁ δοκησίσοφος οὗτος καὶ μεταβὰς ἀπὸ τῶν θρεμμάτων, ἃ δὴ τυφλὸς ἔλαχεν ἡνιοχεῖν, ἀναζητήσας τὴν θείαν ἀγέλην μέρος οὐ μεμπτὸν αὐτῆς γίνεται, θαυμάσας τῆς φύσεως τὸν ἀγελάρχην
καὶ τῆς ἐπιστασίας ἀγάμενος, ᾗ χρῆται πρὸς τὴν τῶν ἑαυτοῦ θρεμμάτων ἐπιμέλειαν· ἑρμηνεύεται γὰρ Ῥαγουὴλ (Exod. 2, 18) ποιμασία θεοῦ.

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.) — 105 focus

[105] but very often this man who is wise in his own conceit, and who, passing over from the herds which the blind had assigned to him for him to guide, having sought out the divine herd, becomes no small portion of it; admiring the leader of nature, and marvelling at his way of leading which he employs in his care of his own flocks, for the name Raguel being interpreted, signifies the "pastoral care of God." ¹

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