Philo Judaeus De Mutatione Nominum 64

ed. Paul Wendland

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[64] εἶθ’ ὅπου οὐδὲ τὰς ὁλοκλήρους θέσεις τῶν ὀνομάτων ὁ
θεὸς ἠξίωσεν ἐπιφημίζειν, ἐπιτρέψας ἀνδρὶ σοφῷ, τῷ γένους ἀνθρώπων ἀρχηγέτῃ, τὸ ἔργον, ὑπονοεῖν ἄξιον, ὅτι μέρη τῶν ὀνομάτων ἢ συλλαβὰς ἢ γράμματα, οὐ φωνήεντα μόνον, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἄφωνα, αὐτὸς προσετίθει καὶ μεθήρμοζε, καὶ ταῦτ’ ἐπὶ προφάσει δωρεᾶς καὶ ὑπερβαλλούσης εὐεργεσίας; οὐκ ἔστιν εἰπεῖν.

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.) — 64 focus

[64] Therefore since God did not think fit to take upon himself even the active imposition of the names, but entrusted the task to a wise man, the author of the whole race of mankind, is it reasonable to suppose that he himself gave and arranged the different parts, and syllables, and letters of nouns, disposing not only the vowels, but even the mutes, and that he did this too to make a show of liberality and exceeding beneficence? It is impossible to say so.

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