Philo Judaeus, De Mutatione Nominum, ed. Paul Wendland, 46

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[46] τίς γὰρ οὐκ οἶδεν, ὅτι καὶ πρὸ τῆς τοῦ κόσμου ¹² γενέσεως ἱκανὸς ἦν αὐτὸς ἑαυτῷ ὁ θεὸς καὶ μετὰ τὴν τοῦ κόσμου γένεσιν ὁ αὐτὸς ἔμενεν, οὐ μεταβαλών; διὰ τί οὖν ἐποίει τὰ μὴ ὄντα; ἢ ὅτι ἀγαθὸς καὶ φιλόδωρος ἦν; εἶτ’ οὐχ ἑψόμεθα οἱ δοῦλοι τῷ δεσπότῃ, θαυμάζοντες μὲν τὸν αἴτιον ὑπερφυῶς, τῆς δὲ καθ’ αὑτοὺς φύσεως μὴ
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De Mutatione Nominum. Philo Judaeus. ed. Paul Wendland. Germany. 2014.

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

Current edition First1KGreek

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.) — 46 focus

[46] for who is there who does not know, that even before the creation of the world God was himself sufficient to himself, and that he remained as much a friend as before after the creation of the world, without having undergone any change? Why then did he make what did not exist before? Because he was good and bounteous. Shall we not then, we who are slaves, follow our master, admiring, in an exceeding degree, the great first Cause of all things, and not altogether despising our own nature?

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De mutatione nominum

1.
1 Μωσῆς codd.
3 5 φανῆναι θεῶ γενήσεται ἐπάξια DR
4 καὶ τοῖς χρωμένοις εἴωθεν ἀρέσκειν conicio (cf. § 40), τοῖς εἴσω καὶ ἔξω ὁμοίως εἴωθε καθαρεύειν coni. Mang., καὶ ἐκτὸς ὁμοίως εἴωθε χωρεῖν coni Cohn
10 τοῖς ex τῆς corr. Β
11 ἐν seclusi
12 κἀκεῖνο conicio
13 αὐτὸ Β, αὐτοῦ Cohn
14 ἤσκησας Β δυνατός A2: δυνατῶς Α1, δυνατὸς εἶ B, sed ο et ει ex corr.
15 τὸ καθ’ ἑκάτερον φησὶν DH τάξιν] ἀξίαν D (om. DH) καὶ τὴν πρὸς] τήν τε πρὸς DM D1RDLDH 15.
16 τὸ ἀγένητον καὶ Om. DP
16 ἀγέννητον D2RD1LDH γενόμενον DPD2R: γεννώμενον codd., e corr. D2R, γεγεννημένον D1RD1L, γεγενημένον DMD2LDH 16.
17 εἰ—εἰπεῖν om D2R
17 θεοῦ om. D1RD1L μεθορίου συνόλως D2R, μεθόριον συνόλως τε DP: μεθόριον οὖσαν μεθορίου οὔσης man. recentissima in A, coni. Hoesch.) ὅλως τε ΑΒ, μεθόριον καὶ καθόλου DMD1RDLDH
18 ὀπαδὸν] σπουδαῖον D1RDLDH, καὶ σπουδαῖον DM εἶναι] ἐστιν DP μέλλει ADMDRD1LDH γάρ D: δὲ codd. πατρὶ] περὶ DMD1RDL
19 γινομένου D1RD1L, γεγενημένου DM

2. 2.
3 pergunt DPDR τοιαῦτα οὑν πρᾶττε —ἀποδέξεται. pergunt lin. 15. 15—165,3 DM fol. 22r DL fol. 28r et 59r DH fol. 113v DR fol. 24r Φίλωνος ἐκ τοῦ (τῶν περὶ (τῶν add. DH) μετονομαζομένων: τὸ καθ’ ἑτέραν ἀξίαν—τῷ δεσπότῃ (ἐν καλοκαγαθίᾳ D2L). 15—19 pergunt DPDR post locum ad lin. τό γὰρ καθ’ ἑτέραν ἀξίαν εὐδοκιμῆσαι—γενομένου. 18.
19 cf. librum „Philos Schrift ϋber die “ p. 43.

Philo Judaeus De Mutatione Nominum 46

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