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Philo Of Alexandria, On The Change Of Names, 122

nan for the name Hosea is interpreted, "what sort of a person is this?" but Joshua means "the salvation of the Lord," being the name of the most excellent possible character; for the habits are better with respect to those persons who are of such and such qualities from being influenced by them: as, for instance, music is better in a musician, physic in a physician, and each art of a distinctive quality in each artist, regarded both in its perpetuity, and in its power, and in its unerring perfection with regard to the objects of its speculation. For a habit is something everlasting, energising, and perfect; but a man of such and such a quality is mortal, the object of action, and imperfect. And what is imperishable is superior to what is mortal, the efficient cause is better than that which is the object of action; and what is perfect is preferable to what is imperfect.

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1. Hebrew Bible, Genesis, a b c d\n0 "17.15" "17.15" "17 15"\n1 1.1 1.1 1 1\n2 1.10 1.10 1 10\n3 1.11 1.11 1 11\n4 1.12 1.12 1 12\n5 1.13 1.13 1 13\n6 1.14 1.14 1 14\n7 1.15 1.15 1 15\n8 1.16 1.16 1 16\n9 1.17 1.17 1 17\n10 1.18 1.18 1 18\n11 1.19 1.19 1 19\n12 1.2 1.2 1 2\n13 1.20 1.20 1 20\n14 1.21 1.21 1 21\n15 1.22 1.22 1 22\n16 1.23 1.23 1 23\n17 1.24 1.24 1 24\n18 1.25 1.25 1 25\n19 1.26 1.26 1 26\n20 1.27 1.27 1 27\n21 1.28 1.28 1 28\n22 1.29 1.29 1 29\n23 1.3 1.3 1 3\n24 1.30 1.30 1 30\n25 1.31 1.31 1 31\n26 1.4 1.4 1 4\n27 1.5 1.5 1 5\n28 1.6 1.6 1 6\n29 1.7 1.7 1 7\n30 1.8 1.8 1 8\n31 1.9 1.9 1 9\n32 2.1 2.1 2 1\n33 2.10 2.10 2 10\n34 2.11 2.11 2 11\n35 2.12 2.12 2 12\n36 2.13 2.13 2 13\n37 2.14 2.14 2 14\n38 2.15 2.15 2 15\n39 2.16 2.16 2 16\n40 2.17 2.17 2 17\n41 2.2 2.2 2 2\n42 2.3 2.3 2 3\n43 2.4 2.4 2 4\n44 2.5 2.5 2 5\n45 2.6 2.6 2 6\n46 2.7 2.7 2 7\n47 2.8 2.8 2 8\n48 2.9 2.9 2 9 (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE)
2. Philo of Alexandria, On The Cherubim, 12-13, 24, 3-5, 56, 6-10 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE) 10. Why then do we wonder if God once for all banished Adam, that is to say, the mind out of the district of the virtues, after he had once contracted folly, that incurable disease, and if he never permitted him again to return, when he also drives out and banishes from wisdom and from the wise man every sophist, and the mother of sophists, the teaching that is of elementary instruction, while he calls the names of wisdom and of the wise man Abraham, and Sarah. IV. 10. He also considered this point, in the second place, that it is indispensable that the soul of the man who is about to receive sacred laws should be thoroughly cleansed and purified from all stains, however difficult to be washed out, which the promiscuous multitude of mixed men from all quarters has impregnated cities with;
3. Philo of Alexandria, On Flight And Finding, 91 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE) 91. For by the following means alone can that which is most excellent within us become adapted for and inclined to the service of him who is the most excellent of all existing beings. In the first place, if a man be resolved into soul, the body, which is akin to it as a brother, being separated and cut off from it, and also all its insatiable desires; and in the second place when the soul has, as I have already said, cast off the irrational part, which is the neighbour of the rational part; for this, like a torrent, being divided into five channels, excites the impetuosity of the passions through all the external senses, as so many aqueducts.
4. Philo of Alexandria, On Giants, 63-64, 62 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE) 62. Accordingly, Abraham, as long as he was abiding in the land of the Chaldaeans, that is to say, in opinion, before he received his new name, and while he was still called Abram, was a man born of heaven, investigating the sublime nature of things on high, and all that took place in these regions, and the causes of them, and studying everything of that kind in the true spirit of philosophy; on which account he received an appellation corresponding to the pursuits to which he devoted himself: for the name Abram, being interpreted, signifies the sublime father, and is a name very fitting for the paternal mind, which in every direction contemplates sublime and heavenly things: for the mind is the father of our composite being, reaching as high as the sky and even farther.
5. Philo of Alexandria, On The Migration of Abraham, 199-207, 198 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE)
6. Philo of Alexandria, On The Change of Names, 117-121, 60-80, 116 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE)
7. Philo of Alexandria, On The Creation of The World, 17-25, 16 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE) 16. for God, as apprehending beforehand, as a God must do, that there could not exist a good imitation without a good model, and that of the things perceptible to the external senses nothing could be faultless which wax not fashioned with reference to some archetypal idea conceived by the intellect, when he had determined to create this visible world, previously formed that one which is perceptible only by the intellect, in order that so using an incorporeal model formed as far as possible on the image of God, he might then make this corporeal world, a younger likeness of the elder creation, which should embrace as many different genera perceptible to the external senses, as the other world contains of those which are visible only to the intellect.
8. Philo of Alexandria, On The Special Laws, 1.48 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE) 1.48. And some of your race, speaking with sufficient correctness, call them ideas (ideai
9. Philo of Alexandria, On The Life of Moses, 2.255 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE) 2.255. and an utter destruction of the enemy, whom the walls the sea, which had been congealed and which now turned back again, overwhelmed, and the sea pouring down and hurrying into what had just been a road, as if into some deep ravine, washed away every thing, and there was evidence of the completeness of the destruction in the bodies which floated on the waters, and which strewed the surface of the sea; and a great agitation of the waves, by which all the dead were cast up into a heap on the opposite shore, becoming a necessary spectacle to those who had been delivered, and to whom it had been granted not merely to escape from their dangers, but also to behold their enemies punished, in a manner too marvellous for description, by no human but by a divine power.
10. Philo of Alexandria, Allegorical Interpretation, 3.131-3.132, 3.217-3.219, 3.244-3.245 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE)
11. Philo of Alexandria, Questions On Exodus, 2.68 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE)
12. Philo of Alexandria, Who Is The Heir, 72 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE)

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
aaron, with moderated emotion	Cover, Philo of Alexandria: On the Change of Names (2023) 428
abram/abraham, change of name	Cover, Philo of Alexandria: On the Change of Names (2023) 250, 269
allegorical commentary	Cover, Philo of Alexandria: On the Change of Names (2023) 9, 250, 428
allegorical interpretation	Brenk and Lanzillotta, Plutarch on Literature, Graeco-Roman Religion, Jews and Christians (2023) 223
allegory/allegoresis, etymology in/vs.	Cover, Philo of Alexandria: On the Change of Names (2023) 250
allegory/allegoresis, present tense in	Cover, Philo of Alexandria: On the Change of Names (2023) 250
allegory/allegoresis	Brenk and Lanzillotta, Plutarch on Literature, Graeco-Roman Religion, Jews and Christians (2023) 223
apollo	Taylor and Hay, Philo of Alexandria: On the Contemplative Life: Introduction, Translation and Commentary (2020) 111
aristotle	Cover, Philo of Alexandria: On the Change of Names (2023) 428
claudius, roman emperor, expulsion of jews from rome by	Feldman, Judaism and Hellenism Reconsidered (2006) 559
commentary	Cover, Philo of Alexandria: On the Change of Names (2023) 9
cycle, patriarchal, abrahamic	Cover, Philo of Alexandria: On the Change of Names (2023) 9
cycle, patriarchal, adamic	Cover, Philo of Alexandria: On the Change of Names (2023) 9
cycle, patriarchal, noahic	Cover, Philo of Alexandria: On the Change of Names (2023) 9
divine	Brenk and Lanzillotta, Plutarch on Literature, Graeco-Roman Religion, Jews and Christians (2023) 223
emotions, good	Cover, Philo of Alexandria: On the Change of Names (2023) 428
emotions, lack of	Cover, Philo of Alexandria: On the Change of Names (2023) 428
emotions, moderation of	Cover, Philo of Alexandria: On the Change of Names (2023) 428
etymology, hebrew	Cover, Philo of Alexandria: On the Change of Names (2023) 250
homer	Brenk and Lanzillotta, Plutarch on Literature, Graeco-Roman Religion, Jews and Christians (2023) 223
hoshea	Cover, Philo of Alexandria: On the Change of Names (2023) 250
jacob	Cover, Philo of Alexandria: On the Change of Names (2023) 9
joseph	Cover, Philo of Alexandria: On the Change of Names (2023) 250
joshua	Cover, Philo of Alexandria: On the Change of Names (2023) 250
joy	Cover, Philo of Alexandria: On the Change of Names (2023) 428
laughter	Cover, Philo of Alexandria: On the Change of Names (2023) 428
lemma, main/primary	Cover, Philo of Alexandria: On the Change of Names (2023) 9
light	Brenk and Lanzillotta, Plutarch on Literature, Graeco-Roman Religion, Jews and Christians (2023) 223
moses	Brenk and Lanzillotta, Plutarch on Literature, Graeco-Roman Religion, Jews and Christians (2023) 223; Cover, Philo of Alexandria: On the Change of Names (2023) 250
names, change of	Cover, Philo of Alexandria: On the Change of Names (2023) 250, 269
names, improper (catachresis)	Cover, Philo of Alexandria: On the Change of Names (2023) 428
narrative	Brenk and Lanzillotta, Plutarch on Literature, Graeco-Roman Religion, Jews and Christians (2023) 223
perfection	Cover, Philo of Alexandria: On the Change of Names (2023) 250
philo of alexandria	Brenk and Lanzillotta, Plutarch on Literature, Graeco-Roman Religion, Jews and Christians (2023) 223; Fialová Hoblík and Kitzler, Hellenism, Early Judaism, and Early Christianity: Transmission and Transformation of Ideas (2022) 14
plato	Brenk and Lanzillotta, Plutarch on Literature, Graeco-Roman Religion, Jews and Christians (2023) 223
platonism	Cover, Philo of Alexandria: On the Change of Names (2023) 250, 428
power (δύναμις)'	Fialová Hoblík and Kitzler, Hellenism, Early Judaism, and Early Christianity: Transmission and Transformation of Ideas (2022) 14
rhetoric	Cover, Philo of Alexandria: On the Change of Names (2023) 250
sarah	Cover, Philo of Alexandria: On the Change of Names (2023) 428
soul	Cover, Philo of Alexandria: On the Change of Names (2023) 250
source	Brenk and Lanzillotta, Plutarch on Literature, Graeco-Roman Religion, Jews and Christians (2023) 223
stoicism	Cover, Philo of Alexandria: On the Change of Names (2023) 250, 428
virtue	Cover, Philo of Alexandria: On the Change of Names (2023) 250, 428