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

Philo of Alexandria · Parte 171

[171] When, therefore, you hear that "Pharaoh and all his servants rejoiced on account of the arrival of Joseph’s brethren," [109] do not think that they rejoiced in reality, unless perhaps in this sense, that they expected that he would become changed from the good things of the soul in which he had been brought up, and would come over to the profitless [110] [111] [112] appetites of the body, having adulterated the ancient and hereditary coinage of that virtue which was akin to him.