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On the question why certain Names in the Holy Scriptures are changed

Philo of Alexandria · Parte 107

[107] These are the men who have been initiated in the unholy rites of Beelphegor, [70] and having widened all the mouths of the body to enable them to receive the streams which are poured into them from without, for the name Beelphegor is interpreted "the mouth above the skin," for they have overwhelmed the mind, the governor of the body, and have sunk it down to the lowest depth, so that it can never emerge, nor even hold up its head in ever so slight a degree.