Philo Judaeus De Mutatione Nominum 258

ed. Paul Wendland

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[258] τί οὖν ἔτι θαυμάζεις, εἰ καὶ ἀρετὴν ἄπονον καὶ ἀταλαίπωρον ὁ θεὸς ὀμβρήσει μηδεμιᾶς δεομένην ἐπιστασίας, ἀλλ’ ἐξ
ἀρχῆς ὁλόκληρον καὶ παντελῆ; εἰ δὲ καὶ μαρτυρίαν βούλει λαβεῖν, Μωυσέως ἀξιοπιστοτέραν εὑρήσεις; ὅς φησι τοῖς μὲν ἄλλοις ἀνθρώποις ἀπὸ γῆς εἶναι τὰς τροφάς, μόνῳ δὲ ἀπ’ οὐρανοῦ τῷ ὁρατικῷ.

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.) — 258 focus

[258] Why then do you any longer wonder if God showers upon men virtue, unaccompanied by any labour or suffering, such as stand in need of no superintending care or instruction, but is from the very beginning entire and perfect? And if you wish to receive any testimony in corroboration of this view, can you find any more trustworthy than that of Moses? And he says that the rest of mankind derive their food from the earth, but that he alone who is endowed with the power of sight, derives his from heaven.

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