Philo Judaeus De Mutatione Nominum 23

ed. Paul Wendland

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[23] οὐκοῦν κύριος ἀφρόνων ἐπιδέδεικται τὸν ἄρχοντος ἐπανατεινάμενος οἰκεῖον φόβον, θεὸς δὲ βελτιουμένων γράφεται, καθὼς καὶ νῦν· „ἐγώ εἰμι θεὸς σός“ (Gen. 17,1), „ἐγὼ ὁ θεός σου, αὐξάνου καὶ πληθύνου"
(Gen. 35,11), τελείων δὲ ἀμφότερον, κύριος ὁμοῦ καὶ θεός, ὡς ἐν δέκα λόγοις· „ἐγὼ κύριος ὁ θεός σου“ (Exod. 20, 2) καὶ ἑτέρωθι·

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.) — 23 focus

[23] therefore he is held forth as the Lord of the foolish, striking them with a terror which is appropriate to him as ruler. But he is the God of those who are improved; as we read now, "I am thy God, I am thy God, be thou increased and multiplied." ¹And in the case of those who are perfect, he is both together, both Lord and God; as we read in the ten commandments, "I am the Lord thy ²³⁴⁵⁶ God." ⁷ And in another passage it is written, "The Lord God of our fathers." ⁸

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