Philo Judaeus De Mutatione Nominum 214

ed. Paul Wendland

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[214] παρὸ καὶ λίαν τεθαύμακεν ὁ ἀσκητικὸς καὶ ἀνδρεῖος, εἴ τις ἐν μέσῳ τοῦ βίου ποταμῷ φορούμενος ὑπ’ οὐδεμιᾶς
ῥύμης κατασύρεται, δύναιτο δὲ καὶ πλούτῳ πολλῷ ῥέοντι ἀντισχεῖν καὶ ἡδονῆς ἀμέτρου φορὰν ἀνῶσαι καὶ λαίλαπι κενῆς δόξης μὴ ἀναρπασθῆναι.

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.) — 214 focus

[214] On which account the practiser of virtue, that courageous man, marvelled greatly, if any one being borne along the middle of the stream of life, was not dragged down by any violence, but was able to withstand the flow of abundant wealth coming over him, and to stem the impetuosity of immoderate pleasure, and to avoid being carried away by the whirlwind of vain opinion.

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