Philo Judaeus, De Mutatione Nominum, ed. Paul Wendland, 199

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[199] ἀλλ’ οὐδὲν ὄφελος· ἀφίξονται γάρ τινες εὖ μάλα ἐρρωμένοι καὶ τῷ περὶ ἀρετὴν ζήλῳ κατεσχημένοι καὶ τὰ περικαλύμματα καὶ περίαπτα ταῦτα, ὅσα λόγῳ κακοτεχνοῦντες συνύφηναν, ἀπαμφιάσαντες καὶ γυμνὴν αὐτὴν ἐφ’ αὑτῆς τὴν ψυχὴν αὐγάσαντες εἴσονται
καὶ τὰ ἐν μυχοῖς ἀποκείμενα τῆς φύσεως ἀπόρρητα — εἶτ’ ἔξω προαγαγόντες τὰ αἴσχη καὶ τὰ ὀνείδη πάντα αὐτῆς ἐν ἡλίῳ καθαρῷ πᾶσιν ¹² ἐπιδείξονται, οἵα τις οὖσα, ὡς αἰσχρὰ καὶ καταγέλαστος οἵαν ἐκ τῶν περιάπτων, ὡς νόθην ἐπεμόρφαζεν εὐμορφίαν.

De Mutatione Nominum. Philo Judaeus. ed. Paul Wendland. Germany. 2014.

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

Current edition First1KGreek

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.) — 199 focus

[199] But it is of no use; for some persons will come endowed with great vigour, and occupied with a real zeal and admiration for virtue, and who will strip them of all their coverings, and disguises, and appendages which they had woven round themselves by the evil artifice of plausible speeches, and will display their soul naked by itself as it really is, and will make themselves acquainted with the secret things of their nature which are hidden as it were in recesses. And then having brought to light all its shame and all the reproaches to which it is liable, they will display them in broad daylight to every one, and show what sort of thing it is, how disgraceful and ridiculous, and what a spurious kind of beauty it has disguised itself with by means of its appendages and coverings.

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De mutatione nominum

1.
3 καὶ ἐπιτηδευμάτων om. Β εὐεπείᾳ coni. Mang.
4 ἐχρῆν οὖν conicio
5 ωσῆς codd.
9 τῇ ἀειπαρθένῳ coni. Mang.
10 δίκαια Mang.: δίκη codd. παριᾶσιν Hoesch.: παρίασιν codd.
15 ἀνδρία codd. 16.
17 τὸ ἀσεβές ψεκτόν om. Β
17 τὸ secl. Mang. βουλεύεσθαι Mang.: βούλεσθαι codd.
19 tert. τὰ secl. vel τὰ βουλευτήρια scrib.
20 ἀνθρώπων Mang.: ἄνθρωποι
23 κατεσχημένοι Mang.: κατισχημένοι codd.
24 κακοτεχνοῦντες scripsi: κατατεχνοῦντες codd. συνύφηναν scripsi: συνύφαναν codd.
27 τά αἴσχη scripsi: τὴν αἰσχύνην codd.

2. 7.
8 DR fol. 46v τοῦ αὐτοῦ DH fol. 134r: τὸ ἐκτραγῳδεῖν καὶ ἐπικομπάζειν ἐπικωμάζειν DR) τὰ κακὰ διπλοῦν ἁμάρτημα.

Philo Judaeus De Mutatione Nominum 199

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