Philo Judaeus, De Mutatione Nominum, ed. Paul Wendland, 171

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[171] ἐπειδὰν οὖν ἀκούσῃς ὅτι „ἐχάρη Φαραὼ καὶ ἡ θεραπεία αὐτοῦ“ (Gen. 45, 16) διὰ τὴν τῶν ἀδελφῶν Ἰωσὴφ ἄφιξιν, μὴ νόμιζε πρὸς ἀλήθειαν ἥδεσθαι, εἰ μὴ κατ’ ἐκεῖνο ἴσως, ὅτι προσδοκῶσιν αὐτὸν μεταβαλεῖν ἀπὸ τῶν ¹² ψυχῆς ἀγαθῶν, οἷς συνετράφη, πρὸς τὰς τοῦ σώματος ἀνηνύτους ἐπιθυμίας, τὸ ἀρχαῖον καὶ προγονικὸν ἀρετῆς συγγενοῦς νόμισμα παρακόψαντα.

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.) — 171 focus

[171] When, therefore, you hear that "Pharaoh and all his servants rejoiced on account of the arrival of Joseph’s brethren," ¹ do not think that they rejoiced in reality, unless perhaps in this sense, that they expected that he would become changed from the good things of the soul in which he had been brought up, and would come over to the profitless ²³⁴ appetites of the body, having adulterated the ancient and hereditary coinage of that virtue which was akin to him.

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De mutatione nominum

1.
2 ἀεὶ Β
4 εὐπάθειαν scripsi: ἀπάθειαν codd.
5 Μωσῆς codd. 9.
10 ἀποφορτισαμένης v
11 ἐφίεται D (Ant. Mel.) καὶ om. D (Ant. Mel.)
12 εἶπεν ὁ D (Ant. Mel.): εἶπε codd. λόγος] νόμος coni. Mang.
16 ἐπιμορφάζειν Mang.: ὑπομορφάζειν codd.
19 προκρίνοντες Ant. Mel., προκρίναντος D
20 εἰκότως om. D Ant, Mel. τοῖς] τοὺς D εἰσηγουμένοις ἀπεχθάνονται Ant. Mel.: ἡγουμένους ἀπεχθάνονται D, ἀπεχθάνονται εἰσηγούμενός codd.

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1 sqq. cf. Cic. Tusc. V 43.
4 Zeller III
1 p. 268 adnot. 2. 10—12 D R fol. 237 V περὶ τῶν μετονομαζομένων Anton Mel. II
32 col. 1084 Φίλωνος: τῶν φαύλων οὐδενὶ—θεός. Anton. Mel. pergit usque ad lin.
14 βίον.
17 DR fol. Φίλωνος Anton. Mel. II
60 col. 1153: οὐδενὶ τῶν φαύλων ἐπιστὰς ἔλεγχος δι’ ἡδονῆς ἐστιν. 18—20 DR fol. 213r Φίλωνος ἐκ τῶν περὶ μετονομαζομένων Mel. II
51 col. 1128 Φίλωνος: πόνος μὲν τοῖς—ἀπεχθάνονται. —
19 DR fol. 142r fol. 256 V Φίλωνος: ῥᾳστώνη τοῖς βλαβεροῖς ἕπεται. in DH sequitur ἡ ἐξ ἔθους καὶ σχολῆς ἀργία πρᾶγμα ἐπίβουλον, in DR et apud Anton. Mel. post locum ad lin. 18 laudatum locus ad vol. I p. 1—3 adlatus, tum ἡ ἐξ ἔθους . . . . . . .

Philo Judaeus De Mutatione Nominum 171

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