Philo Judaeus De Mutatione Nominum 72

ed. Paul Wendland

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[72] τίνος γάρ, φησίν, ἕνεκα χορείας καὶ περιόδους ἀστέρων ἐρευνᾷς καὶ τοσοῦτον ἀπὸ γῆς ἄνω πρὸς αἰθέρα πεπήδηκας; ἆρ’ ἵνα αὐτὸ μόνον τὰ ἐκεῖ περιεργάσῃ; καὶ τίς ἐκ τῆς τοσαύτης περιεργίας
γένοιτ’ ἂν ὠφέλεια; τίς καθαίρεσις ἡδονῆς; τίς ἐπιθυμίας ἀνατροπή; τίς λύπης ἢ φόβου κατάλυσις; ποία παθῶν, ἃ κλονεῖ καὶ συγχεῖ τὴν ψυχήν, ἐκτομή;

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.) — 72 focus

[72] for says he, On what account dost thou investigate the motions and periods of the stars? and why hast thou bounded up so high from the earth to the heavens? Is it merely that you may indulge your curiosity with respect to those matters? And what advantage could accrue to you from all this curiosity? What destruction of pleasure would it cause? What defeat of appetite? What dissolution of pain or fear? What eradication of the passions which disturb and agitate the soul?

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