Philo Judaeus De Mutatione Nominum 228

ed. Paul Wendland

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[228] οὐ διὰ τοῦτο καὶ ὁ Ἀβραὰμ ἐπὶ τῆς
Σοδομιτῶν ἀπωλείας ἀρξάμενος ἀπὸ πεντηκοντάδος εἰς δεκάδα τελευτᾷ (Gen. 18,24. 32), ποτνιώμενος καὶ ἱκετεύων, ἵν’, εἰ μὴ εὑρίσκοιτο ἐν γενέσει ἡ παντελὴς εἰς ἐλευθερίαν ἄφεσις (Lev. 25, 10), ἧς σύμβολον ὁ πεντηκοστὸς λόγος ἱερός, ἡ μέση παιδεία παραληφθῇ δεκάδι παραριθμουμένη πρὸς τὴν τῆς καταδικάζεσθαι ψυχῆς μελλούσης ἀπόλυσιν;

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.) — 228 focus

[228] Was it not for this reason that Abraham also, at the time of the destruction of Sodom, began at fifty and ended at ten? ¹ Therefore, propitiating and supplicating God, entreat him that if there could not be found among his creatures a complete remission so as to give them liberty, of which the sacred number of fifty is a symbol, at least the intermediate instruction which is equal in number to the decade, might be accepted for the sake of the deliverance of the soul which was about to be condemned.

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