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

Philo of Alexandria · Parte 137

[137] [cap.24] And wisdom, which, after the fashion of a mother, has conceived and brought forth the self-taught race, points out that it is God who is the sower of it; for, after the offspring is brought forth, she speaks magnificently, saying, "The Lord has caused me laughter;" [96] an expression equivalent to, he has fashioned, he has made, he has begotten Isaac, since Isaac is the same with laughter.