Philo Judaeus, De Mutatione Nominum, ed. Paul Wendland, 215

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[215] λέγει γοῦν οὐχ ὁ Ἰακὼβ τῷ Ἰωσὴφ μᾶλλον ἢ ὁ ἱερὸς λόγος παντὶ τῷ τὸ μὲν σῶμα εὐεκτοῦντι, ἐν ἀφθόνοις δὲ ταῖς εἰς περιουσίαν ὕλαις ἐξεταζομένῳ καὶ πρὸς μηδεμιᾶς ἁλισκομένῳ· „ἔτι γὰρ σὺ ζῇς“
(Gen. 46, 30) ; θαυμαστὸν ἐκφωνήσας λόγον καὶ τὸν ἡμέτερον βίον ὑπερδεδραμηκότα, οἳ μικρᾶς πρὸς εὐτυχίαν αὔρας λαβόμενοι, πάντα κάλων ἀνασείσαντες, λαμπρὰ φυσῶμεν καὶ πνεύσαντες μέγα καὶ σύντονον πλησίστιοι πρὸς τὰς ἀπολαύσεις τῶν παθῶν φερόμεθα καὶ οὐ πρότερον στέλλομεν τὰς ἀνειμένας καὶ κεχαλασμένας ἀκρατῶς ἐπιθυμίας, ἕως ¹²

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.) — 215 focus

[215] At all events Jacob does not speak to Joseph more than the sacred scripture speaks to every one who is vigorous in his body, and who is seen to be immersed amid abundant treasures, and riches, and superfluities, and to be overcome by none of them, when he says, "For still thou livest," ¹ uttering a most marvellous sentiment, and one which is quite beyond the daily life of us who, if we have fallen in with ever so slight a breeze which bears us towards good fortune, immediately set all sail and beoame greatly elated, and being full of great and high spirits, hurry forward with all our speed to the indulgence of our passions, and never will check our unbridled and immoderately excited desires until we run ashore and are wrecked as to the whole vessel of our souls.

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De mutatione nominum

1.
4 στερεοῦ D (Cohn) 5.
6 μήτε bis scripsit Mang.: μεῖά codd.
8 αὐτῶν vel αὐταῖς conicio ἐνεργεῖς Hoesch.
10 ἐστιν D: ἐστιν ἡ codd.
11 οὐδέ εἷς D
13 σπουδὰς codd.: βλάβας D, συνουσίας conicio
14 τῷ τοῦ conicio ποταμοφορούμενος Β ὑπ’ scripsi: ἀπ’ codd.
15 δύναται coni. Cohn
16 ἀνῶσαι scripsi: ογσαι codd., στῆσαι vel. ἀντωθῆσαι (sic) coni. Mang.
21 ὑπερδεδραμηκότα Mang.: ἀποδεδραμηκότα codd.

2. 1—4 DR fol. 204r Φίλωνος ἐκ τῶν περὶ μετονομαζομένων: φυσικῶς μὴ προὑπαρχούσης τῷ μανθάνοντι εὐφυίας ἀνωφελῆ πάντα . . . . . . καλὸν γὰρ μάθημα οὐδὲν αὐτοῖς ἁρμόζεται ἀπεστραμμένως διακειμένοις καὶ τὰ ὦτα μύουσι, πάντα δέ ὡς ἀπὸ στερεοῦ τινος ἀντιπνέοντος πρὸς τὸ πνεῦμα.
5 cf. Platonis Theaet. p. 191 C ss., supra ad p. 41,18. 10—13 DP fol. 255v τοῦ κατ’ ἀρετὴν—ζῆσαι.
19 cf. vol. II ad p. 272,23.

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