Philo Judaeus De Mutatione Nominum 151

ed. Paul Wendland

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[151] 28 Λέγεται δὲ ἑξῆς, ὅτι „καὶ βασιλεῖς ἐθνῶν ἐξ αὐτῆς ἔσονται“ (ibid.). οὓς γὰρ κυοφορεῖ καὶ ἀποτίκτει, πάντες εἰσὶν ἡγεμόνες, οὐ
κλήρῳ, πράγματι ἀβεβαίῳ, καὶ χειροτονίᾳ ἐμμίσθων τὰ πολλὰ ἀνθρώπων πρὸς ὀλίγον χρόνον αἱρεθέντες, ἀλλ’ ὑπὸ φύσεως εἰς ἀεὶ κατασταθέντες αὐτῆς.

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

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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.) — 151 focus

Immediately afterwards it is said, "And kings of the nations shall be born of her." For those with whom she is pregnant and whom she brings forth are all rulers; not because they have been elected as such for a short period by lot, which is an uncertain thing, or by the show of hands of men who are for the most part bribed, but because they have been destined and appointed so for everlasting by nature herself.

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