Philo Judaeus De Mutatione Nominum 219

ed. Paul Wendland

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[219] ἀγαπητὸν
γάρ, εἰ τῶν ἐκ πόνου καὶ μελέτης συντρόφων καὶ συνηθεστέρων ἀγαθῶν ἐπιλάχοιμεν, p. 612 M. τῶν δ’ ἄνευ τέχνης ἢ συνόλως ἀνθρωπίνης ἐπινοίας ἀπαυτοματιζόντων καὶ ἐξ ἑτοίμου γινομένων οὐδ’ ἐλπὶς ἐφικέσθαι· ταῦτα γὰρ ἅτε θεῖα ὄντα θειοτέραις καὶ ἀκηράτοις φύσεσιν ἀπηλλαγμέναις θνητοῦ σώματος εὑρίσκειν ἀναγκαῖον.

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.) — 219 focus

[219] for we must be content, if, by means of labour and diligence, we obtain a share of those good things which are familiar and customary to us. But there is no hope that we can attain to those which come of their own accord, and from some ever ready and previously prepared source, without any art, or in short, any human contrivance whatever; for inasmuch as these things are divine, they must of necessity be found out by more divine and unadulterated natures, such as have no connection with any mortal body.

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