Philo Judaeus, De Mutatione Nominum, ed. Paul Wendland, 203

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[203] ἀλλὰ τί ἐκ τῆς τοιαύτης ἀκροάσεως, τί δ’ ἐκ τῆς τοιαύτης ἐπιστήμης ὤνατο, γνώμῃ μὲν ἐπιχειρήσας τὸ ψυχῆς ἄριστον ὄμμα λυμήνασθαι, ὃ δὴ μόνον τὸν θεὸν ὁρᾶν πεπαίδευται, μὴ δυνηθεὶς δὲ διὰ τὸ σωτῆρος κράτος ἀήττητον; τοιγαροῦν ὁ μὲν κατακεντούμενος ὑπὸ φρενοβλαβείας τῆς
ἑαυτοῦ καὶ τραύματα πολλὰ δεξάμενος ἐν μέσοις τραυματίαις ἀπώλετο (Num. 31,8), διότι σοφιστείᾳ μαντικῇ τὴν θεοφόρητον προφητείαν παρεχάραξε.

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.) — 203 focus

[203] but what advantage did he reap from such hearing, and what good accrued to him from such knowledge? In his intention he endeavoured to injure the most excellent eye of the soul, which alone has received such instruction as to be able to behold God, but he was unable to do so by reason of the invincible power of the Saviour; therefore, being overthrown by his own insane wickedness, and having received many wounds, he perished amid the heaps of wounded, ¹²³⁴⁵ because he had stamped beforehand the divinely inspired prophecies with the sophistry of the soothsayers.

Philo Judaeus De Mutatione Nominum 203

ed. Paul Wendland

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