Philo Judaeus, De Mutatione Nominum, ed. Paul Wendland, 211

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[211] πάντα τὰ ἀκούσματα καὶ μαθήματα ἐποικοδομεῖται
¹ καθάπερ θεμελίῳ προκαταβεβλημένῳ φύσει παιδείας δεκτικῇ, φύσεως δὲ μὴ προϋπαρχούσης ἀνωφελῆ πάντα. δρυὸς γὰρ ἢ λίθου κωφῆς οὐδὲν ἂν δόξαιεν οἱ ἀφυεῖς διαφέρειν· ἔγκολλον γὰρ ἂν οὐδὲν αὐτοῖς ἁρμόζοιτο, πάντα δ’ ὡς ἀπὸ στερροῦ τινος ἀποπάλλεται καὶ ἀποπηδᾷ.

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.) — 211 focus

[211] Surely not, we must then explain what it is which he intends to signify. All the lessons and all the admonitions of instruction are built up and established on the nature which is calculated to receive instruction, as on a foundation previously laid; but if there is no natural foundation previously in existence, everything is useless; for men, by nature destitute of sense, would not appear at all to differ from a stock or a lifeless stone; for nothing could possibly be adapted to them so as to cleave to them, but everything would rebound and spring back as from some hard body.

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De mutatione nominum

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4 τοῦ υἱοῦ Mang.: τούτου codd.
9 δὲ add. Mang. Μωσῆς codd.
12 λέξεις Mang.
13 Μωσῆς codd.
15 μιμηλάζοντες Mang.: μιμηλίζοντες codd., κιβδηλεύοντες conicio δὴ Mang.: δ’ codd.
16 τοῦτό] αὑτοὺς ex codice Oxon. Coll. Nov. 143 Mang.
19 ὁμοιότητα conicio τὴν βάσανον Β 21.22 Μωσῆς codd.
23 ἐπαμπισχόμενος scripsi: ἐπαμφισκόμενος codd.
27 Ἰακὼβ] per memoriae lapsum Philo, capitis Gen.
49 memor, lacobum pro Mose inducit Ρουβὴν scripsi: Ρουβὶμ codd.
30 μαθήματα] θεάματα coni. Mang.

Philo Judaeus De Mutatione Nominum 211

ed. Paul Wendland

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