Philo: Works of Philo, The
Translated by C. D. Yonge
Number of quotes: 3
Book ID: 279 Page: 3
Section: 4A
(8) But Moses, who had early reached the very summits of philosophy, 1and who had learnt from the oracles of God the most numerous and important of the principles of nature, was well aware that it is indispensable that in all existing things there must be an active cause, and a passive subject; and that the active cause is the intellect of the universe, thoroughly unadulterated and thoroughly unmixed, superior to virtue and superior to science, superior even to abstract good or abstract beauty;
Quote ID: 7000
Time Periods: 12
Book ID: 279 Page: 25
Section: 4A
(3) When, therefore, Moses says, “God completed his works on the sixth day,” we must understand that he is speaking not of a number of days, but that he takes six as a perfect number. Since it is the first number which is equal in its parts, in the half, and the third and sixth parts, and since it is produced by the multiplication of two unequal factors, two and three. And the numbers two and three exceed the incorporeality which exists in the unit;
Quote ID: 7001
Time Periods: 12
Book ID: 279 Page: 247
Section: 4A
(146) And even if there be not as yet any one who is worthy to be called a son of God, nevertheless, let him labour earnestly to be adorned according to his first-born word, the eldest of his angels, as the great archangel of many names; for he is called, the authority, and the name of God, and the Word, and man according to God’s image, and he who sees Israel.
Quote ID: 9345
Time Periods: 12
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