Philo Judaeus De Mutatione Nominum 30

ed. Paul Wendland

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[30] μεγίστη δὲ δωρεὰ τὸ αὐτοῦ λαχεῖν ἀρχιτέκτονος, οὗ καὶ σύμπας ὁ κόσμος ἔλαχε. φαύλου μὲν γὰρ ψυχὴν οὐ διέπλασεν — ἐχθρὸν γὰρ θεῷ κακία —, τὴν δὲ μέσην οὐ δι’ ἑαυτοῦ μόνου κατὰ τὸν ἱερώτατον Μωυσῆν, ἐπειδὴ κηροῦ τρόπον ἔμελλεν αὕτη
δέξασθαι καλοῦ τε καὶ αἰσχροῦ διαφοράν.

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.) — 30 focus

[30] and it is the greatest of all possible gifts to have him for one’s maker, who has also been the maker of the whole world. The soul, indeed, of the wicked man he did not make, for wickedness is hateful to God; and the soul, which is between good and bad, he made not by himself alone, according to the most sacred historian Moses, since that, like wax, was about to receive the different impressions of good and evil.

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