Philo Judaeus De Mutatione Nominum 164

ed. Paul Wendland

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[164] σημεῖα δὲ τοῦ λεγομένου καὶ αἰσθήσεις ἐναργῆ περιφέρουσι·
γεύσεως γὰρ ὄσφρησις προκαθημένη τὰ πρὸς ἐδωδὴν καὶ πόσιν σχεδὸν ἅπαντα προδικάζει· ἀφ’ οὗ καὶ προγευστρίδα αὐτὴν ἐκάλεσαν εἰς τὴν ἐνάργειαν ἀπιδόντες εὐθυβόλως ἔνιοι. πέφυκε δὲ καὶ ἡ ἐλπὶς ὡσανεὶ τοῦ μέλλοντος ἀγαθοῦ προγεύεσθαι καὶ διασυνιστάνειν αὐτὸ ψυχῇ τῇ βεβαίως κτησομένῃ.

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.) — 164 focus

[164] And the external senses afford very manifest proofs of what has now been said; for smell, sitting as it were in front of taste, pronounces judgment beforehand on almost every thing which is eaten and drunk; from which fact some persons have very felicitously named it the foretaster, having a regard to its employment. And so hope is by nature adapted to have as it were a foretaste of the coming good: and to represent it to the soul, which is to have a firm possession of it.

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