Philo Judaeus De Mutatione Nominum 198

ed. Paul Wendland

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[198] ταῦτα καὶ τὰ τοιαῦτα ἀεὶ συνείροντες τὰ δικαστήρια καὶ βουλευτήρια καὶ τὰ θέατρα καὶ πάντα σύλλογον καὶ θίασον ἀνθρώπων ἀπατῶσιν, ὥσπερ οἱ
προσωπεῖα καλὰ αἰσχίσταις ὄψεσι περιτιθέντες προνοίᾳ τοῦ μὴ ὑπὸ τῶν ὁρώντων ἐλέγχεσθαι.

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.) — 198 focus

[198] By continually stringing together these and similar aphorisms they deceive the courts of justice, and the council chambers, and the theatres, and every assembly and company which they meet; as men who put beautiful masks on ugly faces, with the intention of not being discovered by those who see them.

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