Philo Judaeus, De Mutatione Nominum, ed. Paul Wendland, 267

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[267] 47 Ἐπιτείνων δὲ τὸ κάλλος τοῦ γεννωμένου φησὶν αὐτὸ „ἐν τῷ ἐνιαυτῷ τῷ ἑτέρῳ“ (Gen. 17,21) γεννηθήσεσθαι, ἐνιαυτὸν ἕτερον
οὐ τὸ τοῦ χρόνου μηνύων διάστημα, ὃ ταῖς σεληνιακαῖς ἢ ἡλιακαῖς ἀναμετρεῖται περιόδοις, ἀλλὰ τὸ ἔκτοπον καὶ ξένον καὶ καινὸν ὄντως, ἕτερον τῶν ὁρωμένων καὶ αἰσθητῶν, ἐν ἀσωμάτοις καὶ νοητοῖς ἐξεταζόμενον, ὅπερ τὸ χρόνου παράδειγμα καὶ ἀρχέτυπον εἴληχεν, αἰῶνα. αἰὼν δὲ ἀναγράφεται τοῦ νοητοῦ βίος κόσμου, ὡς αἰσθητοῦ χρόνος.

De Mutatione Nominum. Philo Judaeus. ed. Paul Wendland. Germany. 2014.

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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.) — 267 focus

But by way of amplifying the beauty of the creature to be born, he says that it shall be born the next year, indicating by the term, "the next year," ¹ not a difference of time, such as is measured by lunar or solar periods, but that which is truly marvellous, and strange, and new, being an age which is very different from those which are visible to the eyes and perceptible to the outward senses, being investigated in incorporeal things appreciable only by the intellect, which, in fact, is the model and archetype of time. But an age is a name given to the life of the world, intelligible only by the intellect, as time is that given to the life of the world, perceptible by the outward senses.

Philo Judaeus De Mutatione Nominum 267

ed. Paul Wendland

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