Philo Judaeus De Mutatione Nominum 71

ed. Paul Wendland

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[71] τὸν γὰρ πραγματευόμενον τὰ περὶ φύσεως οὐρανοῦ πρότερον, ὃν μαθηματικὸν ἔνιοι προσαγορεύουσιν, ἐπὶ τὴν μετουσίαν καλέσας
ἀρετῆς σοφὸν καὶ ἀπέδειξε καὶ ὠνόμασεν, ἐπιφημίσας τὸν μεταχαραχθέντα τρόπον, ὡς μὲν Ἑβραῖοι εἴποιεν ἄν, Ἀβραάμ, ὡς δ’ ἂν Ἕλληνες, πατέρα ἐκλεκτὸν ἠχοῦς.

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.) — 71 focus

[71] for having invited the man who formerly busied himself about the subject of the nature of heaven, and whom some call a mathematician, to a participation in virtue, he made him wise and called him so. For having given an appropriate name to his transformed disposition, he named him, as the Hebrews would call it, "Abraham," but in the language of the Greeks, "the elect father of sound;"

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