Philo Judaeus, De Mutatione Nominum, ed. Paul Wendland, 8

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[8] ἐπεὶ δ’ οὐδὲν εὕρισκεν, ἀλλ’ οὐδὲ ἐμφερῆ τινα ἰδέαν τῷ ἐλπιζομένῳ, τὴν ἀπὸ τῶν ἄλλων διδασκαλίαν ἀπογνοὺς ἐπ’ αὐτὸ καταφεύγει τὸ ζητούμενον καὶ δεῖται λέγων· „ἐμφάνισόν μοι σεαυτόν, γνωστῶς ἴδω σε“ (Exod. 33,13)· καὶ ὅμως ἀμοιρεῖ τῆς προθέσεως, αὐταρκεστάτης δωρεᾶς τῷ θνητῶν ἀρίστῳ γένει νομισθείσης
τῆς τῶν μετὰ τὸ ὂν σωμάτων τε ὁμοῦ καὶ πραγμάτων ἐπιστήμης. λέγεται γάρ·

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.) — 8 focus

[8] but when he found nothing, not even any appearance at all resembling what he had hoped to behold; he, then, giving up all idea of receiving instruction on that point from any other source, flies to the very being himself whom he was seeking, and entreats him, saying, "Show me thyself that I may see thee so as to know thee." ¹

But, nevertheless, he fails to obtain the end which he had proposed to himself, and which he had accounted the most all-sufficient gift for the most excellent race of creation, mankind, namely a knowledge of those bodies and things which are below the living God.

Philo Judaeus De Mutatione Nominum 8

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