Philo Judaeus De Mutatione Nominum 195

ed. Paul Wendland

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[195] ταύτην οἱ ἐπιχειροῦντες ἄφρονες διαφθείρειν διὰ τῶν καθ’ ἑκάστην ἡμέραν βουλευμάτων καὶ ἐπιτηδευμάτων εὐπρεπείᾳ λόγου διαδιδράσκουσι τὸν ἔλεγχον. χρὴ γοῦν αὐτοὺς ἢ ἀκόλουθα τοῖς λεγομένοις πράττειν ἢ ἀδικοῦντας ἡσυχάζειν· ἥμισυ γάρ, φασί, κακοῦ ἡσυχία· καθὰ καὶ Μωυσῆς
ἐπιτιμῶν τῷ πρεσβείων μὲν ἀξιώσαντι γένεσιν, δευτερείων δὲ τὸν ἄφθαρτον θεόν φησιν· „ἥμαρτες, ἡσύχασον“ (Gen. 4,7).

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.) — 195 focus

[195] Fools, then, laying violent hands upon and attempting to defile her, by means of their daily designs and practises, by their plausibility of speech escape conviction. Therefore ¹²³ they must either act in a manner consistent with the language that they hold, or else they must hold their tongues while committing iniquity. For it is said, "Silence is one half of evil:" as Moses says when rebuking the man who accounted the creature worthy of the principal honour, and the immortal God worthy only of the second place, "Thou hast sinned, be silent."

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