Philo Judaeus, De Mutatione Nominum, ed. Paul Wendland, 13

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[13] καταχρήσεως γὰρ ὀνόματος θείου δεῖ τοῖς εἰς τὴν θνητὴν γένεσιν ἐλθοῦσιν, ἵν’, εἰ καὶ μὴ πράγματι, ὀνόματι γοῦν προσερχόμενοι ἀρίστῳ κατ’ αὐτὸ κοσμῶνται. δηλοῖ δὲ καὶ λόγιον ἐκ προσώπου θεσπισθὲν τοῦ τῶν ὅλων ἡγεμόνος περὶ τοῦ μηδενὶ δεδηλῶσθαι τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ κύριον. „ὤφθην“ φησί
¹²³ „πρὸς Ἀβραὰμ καὶ Ἰσαὰκ καὶ Ἰακὼβ θεὸς ὢν αὐτῶν, καὶ τὸ ὄνομά μου κύριον οὐκ ἐδήλωσα αὐτοῖς“ (Exod. 6,3). τοῦ γὰρ ὑπερβατοῦ μετατεθέντος ἑξῆς ἂν τοιοῦτος εἴη λόγος· „ὄνομά μου τὸ κύριον οὐκ ἐδήλωσα αὐτοῖς“, ἀλλὰ τὸ ἐν καταχρήσει διὰ τὰς εἰρημένας αἰτίας.

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

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

Current edition First1KGreek

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.) — 13 focus

[13] For these men have need of the complete use of the divine name who come to a created or mortal generation, in order that, if they cannot attain to the best thing, they may at least arrive at the best possible name, and arrange themselves in accordance with that; and the sacred oracle which is delivered as from the mouth of the Ruler of the universe, speaks of the proper name of God never having been revealed to any one, when God is represented as saying, "For I have not shown them my name;" ¹ for by a slight change in the figure of speech here used, the meaning of what is said would be something of this kind: "My proper name I have not revealed to them," but only that which is commonly used, though with some misapplication, because of the reasons above-mentioned.

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De mutatione nominum

1.
3 ἀκατονόμαστον D
4 τίς γὰρ D: ἐστι. τίς codd.
5 ἢ fort. del.
7 πρὸς ἀλήθειαν ante alt. τῷ add. codd., om. D
8 τί om. DRD2C τοῦ D: om. codd. ὅτι om. D
9 ἴσον τῷ] εἰς ὢν τὸ DR
10 ἀμοιρῆσαι D (Mang.): ἀφαιρῆσαι codd. τῶν D: om. codd.
11 ἀρρήτου coni. Mang. δίδωσι D (Hoesch.): δίδωμι codd. καταχρήσασθαι D καταχρῆσθαι ὁ ἀκατονόμαστος ὢν conicio ἄν D (Hoesch.): ἐν codd. ὁ ὢν D: om. codd. τοιούτω D: τῶ κυρίω codd.
12 τελειότητος D: ὁσιότητος codd.
13 Ἰακὼβ D: καὶ Ἰακὼβ codd. μου D: om. codd.
14 ἄν D: om. codd.
15 πέρα D: πέραν codd.
16 καὶ πάλιν—ἀγενήτοις om. D κατὰ χρῆσιν
17 θνητὴν D (Mang): ὠνητὴν codd. 17.
18 ἐλθοῦσιν εἰμὶ καὶ πράγματι D
18 προσερυόμενοι D, προσχρώμενοι coni. Mang., προσεχόμενοι coni. Cohn
20 τὸ scripsi: τό δν DR, ἀνθρώπων DC (fort. scrib. ἀνθρώπων τὸ), om. codd. ὄνομα D: ὀνόματι codd., ὄνομά τι Hoesch. κύριον D (Hoesch.): κυρίω codd. 20. 159,1 ὤφθην—αὐτῶν καὶ D: om. codd.

2. 2—4 DC fol. 224r τοῦ αὐτοῦ ἐκ τοὐ περὶ τῶν μετονομαζομένων DR fol. 222 v: τί θαυμαστόν . . . . εἶδεν. 7—9 pergit DC DR I. c.: οὐχ ὁρᾷς—λέγεσθαι.

3. 7—18 DC fol. 224 r τοῦ αὐτοῦ ἐκ τοῦ περὶ τῶν ἐν γενέσει ζητημάτων: φιλοπευστοῦντι τῷ προφήτῃ τοῖς περὶ—κοσμοῦνται (sic). 20—129,2 pergit DC DR post ad lin. 7—9 allatum: περὶ δὲ τοῦ μηδενὶ—αὐτοῖς.

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