Philo Judaeus De Mutatione Nominum 147

ed. Paul Wendland

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[147] ταῦτα μὲν περὶ τοῦ ἓν φάναι δώσειν· νυνὶ δὲ τέκνον εἴρηκεν οὐκ ἀμελῶς οὐδ’ ἀπερισκέπτως, ἀλλ’ ἕνεκα τοῦ παραστῆσαι, ὅτι οὐκ ὀθνεῖον οὐδ’ ὑποβολιμαῖον οὐδ’ αὖ θετὸν ἢ νόθον, ἀλλὰ γνήσιον καὶ ἀστεῖον [ὅτι
οὐκ ὀθνεῖον] ὄντως ἀστῆς ψυχῆς ἔγγονον. παρὰ γὰρ τὸν τόκον τὸ τέκνον εἴρηται πρὸς ἔμφασιν οἰκειότητος, ᾗ φυσικῶς ἁρμόζεται τέκνα γονεῦσιν.

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.) — 147 focus

[147] And this is why he only says that he will give her one son. And now he has called it a son, not speaking carelessly or inconsiderately, but for the sake of showing that it is not a foreign, nor a supposititious, nor an adopted, nor an illegitimate child, but a legitimate child, a proper citizen, inasmuch as a foreign child cannot be the offspring of a truly citizen soul, for the Greek word τέκνον (son), is derived from τόκος (bringing forth), by way of showing the kindred by which children are, by nature, united to their parents.

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