Philo Judaeus, De Mutatione Nominum, ed. Paul Wendland, 157

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[157] εἰκότως δ’ ἂν ἀπορήσειέ τις, πῶς ἐνδέχεται γελᾶν τινα, μήπω γέλωτος εἰς τὴν καθ’ ἡμᾶς γένεσιν ἐλθόντος· ὁ γὰρ Ἰσαάκ ἐστι γέλως, ὃς κατὰ τὴν παροῦσαν σκέψιν οὔπω γεγένηται. ὥσπερ γὰρ οὔτε βλέπειν χωρὶς ὀφθαλμῶν οὔτ’ ἀκούειν χωρὶς ὤτων οὔτε δίχα μυκτήρων ὀσφραίνεσθαι
οὐδ’ αὖ ταῖς ἄλλαις αἰσθήσεσιν ἄνευ τῶν κατ’ αὐτὰς ὀργάνων χρῆσθαι οὔτε καταλαμβάνειν δίχα λογισμοῦ, οὕτως οὐδὲ γελᾶν εἰκὸς ἦν, εἰ μὴ γέλως ἐδεδημιούργητο. τί οὖν χρὴ λέγειν;

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.) — 157 focus

[157] And here any one may reasonably express a doubt how it is possible for any one to laugh when laughter had not as yet come among one branch of the creation; for Isaac is laughter, who, according to the account under our consideration at present, was not yet born. For just as it is impossible to see without eyes, or to hear without ears, or to smell without nostrils, or to exert any other of the external senses without the organs adapted to each respectively, or to comprehend without the reason, so also it is not likely that a person can have laughed, if laughter had not as yet been made.

Philo Judaeus De Mutatione Nominum 157

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