Philo Judaeus De Mutatione Nominum 246

ed. Paul Wendland

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[246] ὅτι, καθάπερ ἐν ἡμῖν ἄριστον ὁ νοῦς, καὶ ἐν ζῴων ἀλόγων γένει τὸ πρόβατον
ἅτε ἡμερώτατον ὑπάρχον καὶ καρπὸν ἐτήσιον ἀνατέλλον ἐξ ἑαυτοῦ πρὸς ὠφέλειαν ὁμοῦ καὶ κόσμον ἀνθρώπων· ἐσθὴς γὰρ τὰς ἀπὸ κρυμοῦ καὶ θάλπους ἀνείργει βλάβας καὶ τὰ ἀπόρρητα τῆς φύσεως ἐπισκιάζουσα πρὸς εὐκοσμίας τοῖς χρωμένοις ἐστί.

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.) — 246 focus

[246] Because, as the mind is the most excellent thing in us, so also is the sheep the most excellent among irrational animals, inasmuch as it is the most gentle, and also as it gives forth a yearly produce in its fleece, for the use and also for the ornament of mankind. For clothes keep off all injury from both cold and heat, and also they conceal the unmentionable parts of nature, and in this way they are an ornament to those who use them:

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