Philo Judaeus, De Mutatione Nominum, ed. Paul Wendland, 263

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[263] διό φησιν· „εὐλόγηκα ¹ αὐτόν, αὐξήσω αὐτόν, πληθυνῶ, δώδεκα ἔθνη γεννήσει“ (ibid. 20), τὸν κύκλον καὶ τὸν χορὸν ἅπαντα τῶν σοφιστικῶν προπαιδευμάτων. „τὴν δὲ διαθήκην μου στήσω πρὸς Ἰσαάκ“ (ibid. 21), ἵν’ ἑκατέρας ἀρετῆς τὸ ἀνθρώπων μεταποιῆται γένος, διδακτῆς τε καὶ αὐτομαθοῦς, τὸ μὲν ἀσθενέστερον διδασκομένης, ἑτοίμης δὲ τὸ ἐρρωμένον.

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.) — 263 focus

[263] On which account God says, "I have blessed him, I will increase him, I will multiply him, he shall beget twelve nations;" ¹ that is to say, he shall beget the whole circle and ring of the sophistical preliminary branches of education; but I will make my covenant with Israel, that the race of mankind may receive each kind of virtue, the weaker part of them receiving both that which is taught by others, and that which is learnt by one’s self, and the stronger part that which is ready and prepared.

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De mutatione nominum

1.
1 μάθης Β
2 ὀσφραίνονται scripsi: ὄσφρονται codd.
5 σχέσεις Mang.: πείσεις codd.
6 σοφιστὴν Mang.: σοφιστῇ codd.
7 ταῦτα Β ἀφειμένα scripsi: ἐφιέμενα codd., ἀφιέμενα Mang.
10 δὲ add.
11 Μωσέως codd.
14 νείφει codd.
16 ἀπ’ οὐρανοῦ τροφὴν Markland (nisi quod οὖν del.): ἀποτροφήν codd.
17 ἐπινίφει coni. Mang.
18 ἔχων] χέων Maug.
20 αὐτομάτων Mang.: αὐτομαθῶν codd. ὅλης] ὑλικῆς coni. Mang., ἀνθρωπίνης conicio
21 αὐθιγενεῖ conicio
26 καθάπερ γὰρ coni.
27 ὀνοματοποιήσῃ scripsi: ὄνομα ποιήσῃ codd.
30 τυγχάνοι Α

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