Philo Judaeus De Mutatione Nominum 62

ed. Paul Wendland

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[62] τῆς μὲν οὖν φρενοβλαβείας οὐκ εἰς μακρὰν ἔδωκε τὴν ἁρμόζουσαν δίκην· ἀπὸ γὰρ
μικρᾶς καὶ τῆς τυχούσης προφάσεως ἐπ’ ἀγχόνην ᾖξεν, ἵν’ ὁ μιαρὸς καὶ δυσκάθαρτος μηδὲ καθαρῷ θανάτῳ τελευτήσῃ. 9 δικαίως δ’ ἂν ἡμεῖς ὑπὲρ τοῦ μὴ καὶ ἕτερον τοῖς αὐτοῖς ἁλῶναι τὰς ὑπονοίας ἐκκόψαιμεν, φυσιολογοῦντες καὶ ἀποδεικνύντες τὰ λεγόμενα ταῦτα πάσης ἐπάξια σπουδῆς.

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.) — 62 focus

[62] But at no distant period he suffered a suitable punishment for his insane wickedness; for on a very slight and ordinary provocation he hanged himself, in order that so polluted and impure a person might not die by a pure and unpolluted death. 9 But we may justly, in order to prevent any one else from falling into the same error, eradicate the erroneous notions which have been formed on the subject, arguing the matter on the principle of natural philosophy, and proving that these things which are here said are worthy of all attention.

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