Philo Judaeus De Mutatione Nominum 107

ed. Paul Wendland

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[107] οὗτοι [τε] τελεταῖς ἀνιέροις ταῖς Βεελφεγὼρ τελεσθέντες (Num. 25,3) καὶ τὰ τοῦ σώματος στόμια πάντα εὐρύναντες πρὸς τὴν p. 595 M. τῶν ἔξωθεν
ἐπιχεομένων ῥευμάτων ὑποδοχὴν — ἑρμηνεύεται γὰρ Βεελφεγὼρ ἀνωτέρω στόμα δέρματος — κατέκλυσαν τὸν ἡγεμόνα νοῦν καὶ ἀφεῖσαν εἰς βυθὸν ἔσχατον, ὡς μηδ’ ἀνανήξασθαι μηδὲ μικρὸν ὅσον δυνηθῆναι ἀνασχεῖν·

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.) — 107 focus

[107] These are the men who have been initiated in the unholy rites of Beelphegor, ¹ and having widened all the mouths of the body to enable them to receive the streams which are poured into them from without, for the name Beelphegor is interpreted "the mouth above the skin," for they have overwhelmed the mind, the governor of the body, and have sunk it down to the lowest depth, so that it can never emerge, nor even hold up its head in ever so slight a degree.

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