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

Philo of Alexandria · Parte 60

[60] for it is said in the scripture, "Thy name shall not be called Abram, but Abraham shall thy name be." Some, then, of those persons who are fond of disputes, and who are always eager to affix a stain upon what is irreproachable, on things as well as bodies, and who wage an implacable war against sacred things, while they calumniate everything which does not appear to preserve strict decorum in speech, being the symbols of nature which is always fond of [56] being concealed, perverting it all so as to give it a worse appearance after a very accurate investigation, do especially find fault with the changes of names.