Philo Judaeus De Mutatione Nominum 163

ed. Paul Wendland

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[163] ἥκοντι μὲν οὖν ἤδη τῷ ἀγαθῷ συνομαρτεῖ χαρά, προσδοκωμένῳ δὲ ἐλπίς· ἀφικομένῳ μὲν γὰρ χαίρομεν,
μέλλοντος δὲ ἐλπίζομεν, καθάπερ καὶ ἐπὶ τῶν ἐναντίων ἔχειν συμβέβηκεν· ἡ μὲν γὰρ παρουσία τοῦ κακοῦ λύπην, ἡ δὲ προσδοκία φόβον ἐγέννησεν. φόβος δὲ ἄρα ἦν οὐδὲν ἢ λύπη πρὸ λύπης, ὥσπερ ἐλπὶς χαρὰ πρὸ χαρᾶς· ὃ γάρ, οἶμαι, πρὸς λύπην φόβος, τοῦτο πρὸς χαρὰν ἐλπίς.

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.) — 163 focus

[163] Therefore, joy accompanies a good when it is already arrived, and hope while it is expected. For we rejoice when it is come, and we hope while it is coming; just as is the case also with the contrary feelings; for the presence of evil brings us grief, and the expectation of evil generates fear, and fear is nothing more than grief before grief, as hope is joy before joy. For the same relation that, I imagine, fear bears to grief, that same does hope bear to joy.

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