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

Philo of Alexandria · Parte 14

[14] And, indeed, the living God is so completely indescribable, that even those powers which minister unto him do not [13] [14] announce his proper name to us. At all events, after the wrestling match in which the practiser of virtue wrestled for the sake of the acquisition of virtue, he says to the invisible Master, "Tell me thy name;" [15] but he said, "Why askest thou me my name?" And he does not tell him his peculiar and proper name, for says he, it is sufficient for thee to be taught my ordinary explanations. But as for names which are the symbols of created things, do not seek to find them among immortal natures.