Philo Judaeus De Mutatione Nominum 70

ed. Paul Wendland

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[70] κατὰ μὲν οὖν τοὺς προτέρους χαρακτῆρας ὁ φιλομαθὴς
καὶ μετεωρολέσχης ἐσκιαγραφεῖτο, κατὰ δὲ τοὺς ἀρτίως ὑποτυπωθέντας ὁ φιλόσοφος, μᾶλλον δ’ ὁ σοφὸς ἐδηλοῦτο. μηκέτ’ οὖν ὀνομάτων ἀλλαγὴν ὑπολάβῃς χαρίζεσθαι τὸ θεῖον, ἀλλὰ διὰ συμβόλων ἠθῶν ἐπανόρθωσιν.

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.) — 70 focus

[70] therefore the man devoted to learning and occupied in the contemplation of sublime subjects, was sketched out according to the former characteristic marks, but the philosopher, or I should rather say the wise man, was exhibited in accordance with those of which we have just given an outline. Think not, then, any longer that the Deity bestows a change of names, but consider that what he gives is a correction of the moral character by means of symbols;

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