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

Philo of Alexandria · Parte 262

[262] As grief and fear have their appropriate expressions which the passion, when more than usually violent and predominant, gives utterance to; so also, good counsels and happiness compel a man to employ a natural expression of them, for which no one could find out more appropriate and felicitous names, even if he were very skilful in the imposition of names.