Philo Judaeus, De Mutatione Nominum, ed. Paul Wendland, 181

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[181] 34 ἀλλ’ ἴσως ἄν τις εἴποι· τί οὖν γε, ὅτι πεπιστευκὼς ἴχνος ἢ σκιὰν
ἢ αὔραν ἀπιστίας δέχεται τὸ παράπαν; οὗτος δὲ οὐδὲν ἕτερόν μοι βούλεσθαι δοκεῖ ἢ τὸν γενόμενον ἀποφαίνειν ἀγένητον καὶ τὸν θνητὸν ἀθάνατον καὶ τὸν φθαρτὸν ἄφθαρτον καὶ τὸν ἄνθρωπον, εἰ θέμις εἰπεῖν, ¹² θεόν. τὴν γὰρ πίστιν, ἧς ἔλαχεν ἄνθρωπος,

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.) — 181 focus

But, perhaps, some one may say, What then? is he who has once believed bound never to admit the slightest trace, or shadow, or moment of incredulity at all? But this man appears to me to have nothing else in his mind except an idea of proving the creature uncreated, and the mortal immortal, and the corruptible incorruptible, and man, if it be lawful to say so, God.

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De mutatione nominum

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1 τὸ] τῷ conicio εἶπεν Mang.
3 ἐνδοιάσαι B: ἐνδοιάζειν Α ᾗ] ἧς conicio 9] αὐτό μόνον conicio
15 πράγματι et σώματι
συνδιαιροῦσα coni. Mang. συντέμνουσα conicio ἀπειρομεγέθη διαστήματα Mang.: ἄπειρα μεγέθη διὰ στόματος cocid. 20.
21 ὑπερβαίνουσα coni. Mang.
21 τούτου κόσμου τοὺς ὅρους conicio
22 συγγενικῶν coni. Mang.
23 ἀμερίς Β, ἀκαρής Mang.
24 τί; οὐ γέλοιον ὅτι conicio, τί οὑν; ὅ ποτε πεπιστευκὼς coni. Mang.
25 αὔραν Mang.: ὥραν codd.
26 ἀγέννητον codd.

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13 Hom. Od. η 36.

Philo Judaeus De Mutatione Nominum 181

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