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

Philo of Alexandria · Parte 123

[123] In this way the coinage of the above mentioned description was changed and received the stamp of a better kind of appearance. And Caleb himself was changed wholly and entirely; "For," as the scripture says, "a new spirit was in him;" [83] as if the dominant part in him had been changed into complete perfection; for the name Caleb, being interpreted, means, "the whole heart."