Philo Judaeus, De Mutatione Nominum, ed. Paul Wendland, 208

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[208] ἐπειδὴ γὰρ Μωυσῆς μέν ἐστι νοῦς ὁ καθαρώτατος, Ἀαρὼν δὲ λόγος αὐτοῦ, πεπαίδευται δὲ καὶ ὁ νοῦς θεοπρεπῶς ἐφάπτεσθαι καὶ ὁ λόγος ὁσίως ἑρμηνεύειν τὰ ὅσια, μιμηλάζοντες δὴ οἱ
σοφισταὶ καὶ παρακόπτοντες τὸ δόκιμον νόμισμα τοῦτό φασι καὶ νοεῖν ὀρθῶς περὶ τοῦ ἀρίστου καὶ λέγειν ἐπαινετῶς (Exod. 7,11). ὅπως οὖν μὴ ἀπατώμεθα παραθέσει τῶν κεκιβδηλευμένων πρὸς τὰ δόκιμα δι’ ὁμοιότητος τοῦ χαρακτῆρος, βάσανον ἔδωκεν, ᾗ διακριθήσεται.

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.) — 208 focus

[208] for since Moses is the purest mind, and Aaron is his speech, and moreover, since the mind has been taught to think of divine things in a divine manner, and since the speech has learnt to interpret holy things in holy language, the sophists imitating them, and adulterating the genuine coinage, say, that they also conceive rightly, and speak in a praiseworthy manner about what is most excellent. In order, therefore, that we may not be deceived by a placing of the base money in juxtaposition with the good, by reason of ¹² the similitude of the impression, he has given us a test by which they may be distinguished.

Philo Judaeus De Mutatione Nominum 208

ed. Paul Wendland

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