Philo Judaeus, De Mutatione Nominum, ed. Paul Wendland, 60

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[60] λέγεται γὰρ ὅτι „οὐ κληθήσεται τὸ ὄνομά σου Ἀβράμ, ἀλλ’ ἔσται τὸ ὄνομά σου Ἀβραάμ“ (Gen. 17,5). ἔνιοι μὲν οὖν τῶν φιλαπεχθημόνων καὶ μώμους ἀεὶ τοῖς ἀμώμοις προσάπτειν ἐθελόντων οὐ σώμασι μᾶλλον
ἢ πράγμασι καὶ πόλεμον ἀκήρυκτον πολεμούντων τοῖς ἱεροῖς πάνθ’ ὅσα μὴ τὸ εὐπρεπὲς ἐν λόγῳ διασῴζειν δοκεῖ σύμβολα φύσεως τῆς ἀεὶ κρύπτεσθαι φιλούσης ὑπάρχοντα μετὰ ἀκριβοῦς ἐρεύνης φαυλίσαντες ἐπὶ διαβολῇ προφέρουσι, διαφερόντως δὲ τὰς τῶν ὀνομάτων μεταθέσεις.

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.) — 60 focus

[60] for it is said in the scripture, "Thy name shall not be called Abram, but Abraham shall thy name be." Some, then, of those persons who are fond of disputes, and who are always eager to affix a stain upon what is irreproachable, on things as well as bodies, and who wage an implacable war against sacred things, while they calumniate everything which does not appear to preserve strict decorum in speech, being the symbols of nature which is always fond of ¹ being concealed, perverting it all so as to give it a worse appearance after a very accurate investigation, do especially find fault with the changes of names.

Philo Judaeus De Mutatione Nominum 60

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