Philo Judaeus De Mutatione Nominum 260

ed. Paul Wendland

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[260] ἣν ἄνωθεν ἐπιπέμπει ταῖς ἵμερον ἀρετῆς ἐχούσαις ψυχαῖς ὁ φρονήσεως εὐθηνίαν καὶ εὐετηρίαν ἔχων καὶ τὰ ὅλα ἄρδων καὶ μάλιστα ἐν ἱερᾷ ἑβδόμῃ, ἣν σάββατον καλεῖ (Exod. 16, 23 ss.). τότε γὰρ τὴν
τῶν αὐτομάτων ἀγαθῶν φορὰν ἔσεσθαί φησιν, οὐκ ἐξ ὅλης τέχνης ἀνατελλόντων, ἀλλ’ αὐτογενεῖ καὶ αὐτοτελεῖ φύσει βλαστανόντων καὶ τοὺς οἰκείους φερόντων καρπούς.

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.) — 260 focus

[260] which God sends from above upon those souls which have a longing for virtue, God who possesses a great abundance and exceeding treasure of wisdom, and who irrigates the universe, and especially so on the sacred seventh day which he calls the sabbath; for then, he says, that there is an influx of spontaneous good things, not rising from any kind of art, but ¹ shooting up by their own spontaneous and self-perfecting nature, and bearing appropriate fruit.

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