Philo Judaeus De Mutatione Nominum 175

ed. Paul Wendland

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[175] 33 Τοιαύτη μέν τις ἡ ψευδώνυμος χαρὰ τῶν ἀφρόνων, ἡ δὲ ἀληθὴς πρότερον εἴρηται, μόνοις ἀστείοις ἐφαρμόζουσα. „πεσὼν οὖν
ἐγέλασεν“ (Gen. 17,17), οὐκ ἀπὸ θεοῦ πεσών, ἀλλ’ ἀφ’ ἑαυτοῦ· ἔστη μὲν γὰρ περὶ τὸν ἄτρεπτον, ἔπεσε δὲ ἀπὸ τῆς ἰδίας οἰήσεως.

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.) — 175 focus

Something like this, then, is the falsely named joy of the foolish. But the true joy has already been described, which is adapted only to the virtuous, "Therefore, falling ¹²³ down, he laughed." ⁴ Not falling from God, but from himself; for he stood near the unchangeable God, but he fell from his own vain opinion.

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