Philo Judaeus De Mutatione Nominum 254

ed. Paul Wendland

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[254] ἀλλ’ οἷς ἐπινεύει τὸ θεῖον, ἅπας
ἄφρων ἀνανένευκε. τὴν γοῦν Λείαν μισουμένην εἰσάγουσιν οἱ χρησμοί· διὸ καὶ τοιαύτης ἔτυχε προσρήσεως· ἑρμηνευθεῖσα γάρ ἐστιν ἀνανευομένη καὶ κοπιῶσα διὰ τὸ πάντας ἡμᾶς ἀρετὴν ἀποστρέφεσθαι καὶ κοπώδη νομίζειν ἐπιτάγματα οὐχ ἡδέα πολλάκις ἐπιτάττουσαν.

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.) — 254 focus

[254] But what God promises every foolish man repudiates; therefore the sacred scriptures represent Leah as hated, and on this account it is that she received that name; for Leah, being interpreted, means "repudiating and labouring," because we all turn away from virtue and think it a laborious thing, by reason of its very often imposing commands on us which are not pleasant.

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