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4 results for "earth"
1. Anon., Testament of Naphtali, 1.1-1.5 (2nd cent. BCE - 2nd cent. CE)  Tagged with subjects: •earth, born Found in books: Garcia (2021) 79
1.1. The copy of the testament of Naphtali, which he ordained at the time of his death in the hundred and thirtieth year of his life. 1.2. When his sons were gathered together in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, while still in good health, he made them a feast of food and wine. 1.3. And after he was awake in the morning, he said to them, I am dying; and they believed him not. 1.4. And as he glorified the Lord, he grew strong and said that after yesterday's feast he should die. 1.5. And he began then to say: Hear, my children, ye sons of Naphtali, hear the words of your father.
2. Philo of Alexandria, On The Creation of The World, 69-71 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE)  Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Garcia (2021) 70
71. and perceiving in that, the original models and ideas of those things intelligible by the external senses which it saw here full of surpassing beauty, it becomes seized with a sort of sober intoxication like the zealots engaged in the Corybantian festivals, and yields to enthusiasm, becoming filled with another desire, and a more excellent longing, by which it is conducted onwards to the very summit of such things as are perceptible only to the intellect, till it appears to be reaching the great King himself. And while it is eagerly longing to behold him pure and unmingled, rays of divine light are poured forth upon it like a torrent, so as to bewilder the eyes of its intelligence by their splendour. But as it is not every image that resembles its archetypal model, since many are unlike, Moses has shown this by adding to the words "after his image," the expression, "in his likeness," to prove that it means an accurate impression, having a clear and evident resemblance in form. XXIV.
3. Philo of Alexandria, Allegorical Interpretation, 1.55, 1.63-1.78 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE)  Tagged with subjects: •earth, born Found in books: Garcia (2021) 79
4. Philo of Alexandria, That The Worse Attacks The Better, 85-90, 84 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE)  Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Garcia (2021) 70