Philo Judaeus, De Mutatione Nominum, ed. Paul Wendland, 67

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[67] μετέωρον τοίνυν ἀλληγοροῦντές φαμεν
τὸν ἀπὸ γῆς ἑαυτὸν εἰς ὕψος αἴροντα καὶ ἐπισκοποῦντα τὰ μετάρσια, μετεωροπόλον τε καὶ μετεωρολογικόν, ἐρευνῶντα τί ἡλίου μέγεθος, τίνες αὐτοῦ φοραί, πῶς τὰς ἐτησίους ὥρας διανέμει προσιὼν καὶ ἐξαναχωρῶν πάλιν ἰσοταχέσι ταῖς ἀνακυκλήσεσι, καὶ σελήνης περὶ φωτισμῶν, σχηματισμῶν, μειώσεως, αὐξήσεως, καὶ τῶν ἄλλων ἀστέρων κινήσεως,
ἀπλανοῦς τε καὶ πεπλανημένης.

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.) — 67 focus

[67] Now using allegorical language, we call that man sublime who raises himself from the earth to a height, and who devotes himself to the inspection of high things; and we also call him a haunter of high regions, and a meteorologist, inquiring what is the magnitude of the sun, what are his motions, how he influences the seasons of the year, advancing as he does and retreating back again, with revolutions of equal speed, and investigating as he does the subjects of the radiance of the moon, of its shape, of its waning, of its increase, and of the motion of the other stars, whether fixed or wandering;

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