Philo Judaeus De Mutatione Nominum 257

ed. Paul Wendland

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[257] αἱ δ’ ὁρμαὶ καὶ φαντασίαι — πρῶται δ’ εἰσὶν
αὗται κινήσεις καὶ σχέσεις ψυχῆς — διδασκαλίᾳ συνέστησαν; παρὰ δὲ σοφιστὴν φοιτήσας ὁ νοῦς ἡμῶν νοεῖν καὶ καταλαμβάνειν ἔμαθε; πάντα ταῦτ’ ἀφειμένα διδασκαλίας ἀπαυτοματιζούσῃ φύσει χρῆται πρὸς τὰς οἰκείας ἐνεργείας.

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.) — 257 focus

[257] Again, do the appetites and imaginations (and these are the first moving powers and persuasions of the soul) exist in consequence of teaching? And has our mind gone as a pupil to any sophist, in order to learn to think and to comprehend? All these things repudiate all kinds of instruction, and avail themselves only of the spontaneous gifts of nature to exert their appropriate energies.

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