Philo Judaeus, De Mutatione Nominum, ed. Paul Wendland, 217

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[217] εἰ γὰρ παιδαγωγοῦ μὲν παρόντος οὐκ ἂν ἁμάρτοι ὁ ἀγόμενος, ὑφηγητὴς δὲ
ἐγγὺς ὢν ὠφελεῖ τὸν μανθάνοντα, πρεσβυτέρου δὲ παρατυγχάνοντος αἰδοῖ καὶ σωφροσύνῃ κοσμεῖται νέος, πατὴρ δὲ ἢ μήτηρ υἱὸν μέλλοντα ἀδικεῖν ἐκώλυσαν ἐφ’ ἡσυχίας αὐτὸ μόνον ὀφθέντες, ἡλίκαις τισὶν ὑπερβολαῖς ἀγαθῶν χρήσεσθαι νομίζομεν τὸν ὑπολαμβάνοντ’ ἀεὶ ὑπὸ θεοῦ θεωρεῖσθαι; τὸ γὰρ τοῦ παρόντος καὶ περιβλέπεται ἀξίωμα δεδιὼς καὶ
τρέμων ἀνὰ κράτος τὸ ἀδικεῖν ἀποδράσεται.

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.) — 217 focus

[217] for if, while the teacher is present the pupil cannot go wrong, and if a monitor being at hand is of service to the learner, and if while an elder person is present the younger man is adorned by modesty and temperance, and if the presence of his father or of his mother have often prevented a son when about to commit sin, even though they are only beheld by him in silence, then what excess of good must we imagine that man to enjoy, who believes that he is always watched and beheld by God? for while he fears and reverences and looks up to the dignity of him as being present, he will flee from committing iniquity with all his might.

Philo Judaeus De Mutatione Nominum 217

ed. Paul Wendland

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