Philo Judaeus De Mutatione Nominum 96

ed. Paul Wendland

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[96] ἣ τίκτει κενοδοξίαν, παρέστησεν· „ἀπέθανε“ γάρ φησι „Ῥαχὴλ δυστοκήσασα“ (Gen. 35, 16. 19), ἐπειδὴ τῷ ὄντι ψυχῆς ἐστι θάνατος
δόξης αἰσθητῆς καὶ κενῆς σπορά τε καὶ γέννησις.

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.) — 96 focus

[96] Very necessarily therefore did the divinely inspired prophet represent that vain glory as dying in the very act of bringing forth; for says he, "Rachel died, having had a bad delivery." ¹ Since, in truth and reality, the sowing and generation of vain glory perceptible by the outward senses is the death of the soul.

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