Philo Judaeus De Mutatione Nominum 224

ed. Paul Wendland

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[224] 40 ἐπαινεῖν ἄξιον καὶ τῶν κατασκόπων
τοὺς ἐπιχειρήσαντας μὲν αὐτόπρεμνον τὸ ἀρετῆς ὅλον ἀνασπάσαι καὶ βαστάσαι στέλεχος, ἐπεὶ δ’ οὐκ ἠδυνήθησαν, κληματίδα γοῦν καὶ ἕνα βότρυν λαβόντας, δεῖγμα καὶ μέρος τῆς συμπάσης, ὃ φέρειν αὐτὸ μόνον ἴσχυον (Num. 13,24).

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.) — 224 focus

It is right also to praise those inquirers after truth, who have endeavoured to tear up and carry off the whole trunk of virtue, root and branch: but since they have not been able to do it, have at least taken either a single shoot, or a single bunch of the fruit, as a specimen and portion of the whole tree, being all that they were able to bear. ¹

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