Philo Judaeus De Mutatione Nominum 59

ed. Paul Wendland

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[59] τοῖς μὲν γὰρ δι’ ἑτέρων τὰς εὐεργεσίας εἴωθε προτείνειν ὁ θεός, γῆς, ὕδατος, ἀέρος, ἡλίου, σελήνης, οὐρανοῦ,
δυνάμεων ἄλλων ἀσωμάτων, τοῖς δὲ δι’ ἑαυτοῦ μόνου, κλῆρον ἀποφήνας τῶν λαμβανόντων ἑαυτόν, οὓς εὐθέως καὶ προσρήσεως ἑτέρας ἠξίωσε.

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.) — 59 focus

[59] For on some persons God is in the habit of bestowing his graces by the intervention of others; as, for instance, through the medium of earth, water, air, the sun, the moon, heaven, and other incorporeal powers. But he bestows them on others through himself alone, exhibiting himself as the inheritance of those who receive him, whom from that he thinks worthy of another appellation:

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