Philo Judaeus, De Mutatione Nominum, ed. Paul Wendland, 192

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[192] πολλὰ δ’ ἄν τις καὶ ἄλλα σκοπῶν εὕροι πρὸς ἔπαινον τοῦ λεχθέντος ἀριθμοῦ τοῖς νόμοις ἐμφερόμενα, πρὸς δὲ τὸ παρὸν διεξαρκεῖ
τὰ εἰρημένα. ἀλλ’ ἐὰν τῶν ἑκατὸν ἀφέλῃς δεκάτην ἱερὰν ἀπαρχὴν τῷ τῆς ψυχῆς φέροντι καὶ αὔξοντι καὶ πληροῦντι καρποὺς θεῷ, ἕτερον ἀριθμὸν τέλειον τὸν ἐνενήκοντα ἀπολείψεις. πῶς γὰρ οὐ τέλειος, μεθόριος ὢν πρώτης καὶ δεκάτης, καθ’ ὃν διακρίνεται τὰ ἅγια τῶν ἁγίων τρόπον καταπετάσματος τοῦ μέσου (Exod. 26,33), ᾧ τὰ ὁμογενῆ διαστέλλεται
κατὰ τὰς ἐν τοῖς εἴδεσι τομάς.

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.) — 192 focus

[192] And if a person were to consider, he might find many other instances to the praise of the aforesaid number brought forward in the law of Moses, but for the present what have been enumerated are sufficient. But if from the hundred you set aside the tenth part as a sacred first fruit to God who produces, and increases, and brings to perfection the fruit of the soul—for how can it be anything but perfect, inasmuch as it is on the confines between the first and the tenth, in the same manner in which the Holy of Holies is separated by the veil in the middle. [...] ¹ by which those things which are of the same genus are divided according to the differences in species?

Philo Judaeus De Mutatione Nominum 192

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