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Philo Of Alexandria, On Flight And Finding, 108


nanThis difficult and scarcely explicable perplexity we may escape if we adopt the inner and allegorical explanation in accordance with natural philosophy. For we say that the high priest is not a man, but is the word of God, who has not only no participation in intentional errors, but none even in those which are involuntary.


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1. Hebrew Bible, Genesis, 1.1, 5.1-5.3 (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE)

1.1. וַיִּקְרָא אֱלֹהִים לַיַּבָּשָׁה אֶרֶץ וּלְמִקְוֵה הַמַּיִם קָרָא יַמִּים וַיַּרְא אֱלֹהִים כִּי־טוֹב׃ 1.1. בְּרֵאשִׁית בָּרָא אֱלֹהִים אֵת הַשָּׁמַיִם וְאֵת הָאָרֶץ׃ 5.1. זֶה סֵפֶר תּוֹלְדֹת אָדָם בְּיוֹם בְּרֹא אֱלֹהִים אָדָם בִּדְמוּת אֱלֹהִים עָשָׂה אֹתוֹ׃ 5.1. וַיְחִי אֱנוֹשׁ אַחֲרֵי הוֹלִידוֹ אֶת־קֵינָן חֲמֵשׁ עֶשְׂרֵה שָׁנָה וּשְׁמֹנֶה מֵאוֹת שָׁנָה וַיּוֹלֶד בָּנִים וּבָנוֹת׃ 5.2. וַיִּהְיוּ כָּל־יְמֵי־יֶרֶד שְׁתַּיִם וְשִׁשִּׁים שָׁנָה וּתְשַׁע מֵאוֹת שָׁנָה וַיָּמֹת׃ 5.2. זָכָר וּנְקֵבָה בְּרָאָם וַיְבָרֶךְ אֹתָם וַיִּקְרָא אֶת־שְׁמָם אָדָם בְּיוֹם הִבָּרְאָם׃ 5.3. וַיְחִי אָדָם שְׁלֹשִׁים וּמְאַת שָׁנָה וַיּוֹלֶד בִּדְמוּתוֹ כְּצַלְמוֹ וַיִּקְרָא אֶת־שְׁמוֹ שֵׁת׃ 5.3. וַיְחִי־לֶמֶךְ אַחֲרֵי הוֹלִידוֹ אֶת־נֹחַ חָמֵשׁ וְתִשְׁעִים שָׁנָה וַחֲמֵשׁ מֵאֹת שָׁנָה וַיּוֹלֶד בָּנִים וּבָנוֹת׃ 1.1. In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." 5.1. This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made He him;" 5.2. male and female created He them, and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created." 5.3. And Adam lived a hundred and thirty years, and begot a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth."
2. Plato, Timaeus, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

40b. and the other is a forward motion due to its being dominated by the revolution of the Same and Similar; but in respect of the other five motions they are at rest and move not, so that each of them may attain the greatest possible perfection. From this cause, then, came into existence all those unwandering stars which are living creatures divine and eternal and abide for ever revolving uniformly in the same spot; and those which keep swerving and wandering have been generated in the fashion previously described. And Earth, our nurse, which is globed around the pole that stretches through all
3. Septuagint, Ecclesiasticus (Siracides), 24.4, 24.8 (2nd cent. BCE - 2nd cent. BCE)

24.4. I dwelt in high places,and my throne was in a pillar of cloud. 24.8. Then the Creator of all things gave me a commandment,and the one who created me assigned a place for my tent. And he said, `Make your dwelling in Jacob,and in Israel receive your inheritance.
4. Septuagint, Wisdom of Solomon, 9.1-9.2 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

9.1. O God of my fathers and Lord of mercy,who hast made all things by thy word 9.2. and by thy wisdom hast formed man,to have dominion over the creatures thou hast made
5. Philo of Alexandria, On Flight And Finding, 109 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE)

109. For Moses says that he cannot be defiled neither in respect of his father, that is, the mind, nor his mother, that is, the external sense; because, I imagine, he has received imperishable and wholly pure parents, God being his father, who is also the father of all things, and wisdom being his mother, by means of whom the universe arrived at creation;
6. Philo of Alexandria, That The Worse Attacks The Better, 115 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE)

115. Now these energies are especially the food of the soul, which is competent to give suck, as the lawgiver says, "Honey out of the rock, and oil out of the solid Rock," meaning by the solid rock which cannot be cut through, the wisdom of God, which is the nurse and foster-mother and educator of those who desire incorruptible food;
7. New Testament, John, 1.1-1.4, 1.14, 1.18, 5.26, 6.35, 6.48, 11.25, 14.6, 14.9 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)

1.1. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 1.2. The same was in the beginning with God. 1.3. All things were made through him. Without him was not anything made that has been made. 1.4. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. 1.14. The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth. 1.18. No one has seen God at any time. The one and only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he has declared him. 5.26. For as the Father has life in himself, even so he gave to the Son also to have life in himself. 6.35. Jesus said to them. "I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will not be hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty. 6.48. I am the bread of life. 11.25. Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me, though he die, yet will he live. 14.6. Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me. 14.9. Jesus said to him, "Have I been with you such a long time, and do you not know me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father. How do you say, 'Show us the Father?'
8. Irenaeus, Refutation of All Heresies, 1.8.5 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)



Subjects of this text:

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adam Corrigan and Rasimus, Gnosticism, Platonism and the Late Ancient World (2013) 395
androgyny, androgyne Corrigan and Rasimus, Gnosticism, Platonism and the Late Ancient World (2013) 395
contemplation Corrigan and Rasimus, Gnosticism, Platonism and the Late Ancient World (2013) 395
cosmology Novenson, Monotheism and Christology in Greco-Roman Antiquity (2020) 209
creator, creation Novenson, Monotheism and Christology in Greco-Roman Antiquity (2020) 209
dyad Corrigan and Rasimus, Gnosticism, Platonism and the Late Ancient World (2013) 395
eden Corrigan and Rasimus, Gnosticism, Platonism and the Late Ancient World (2013) 395
eve Corrigan and Rasimus, Gnosticism, Platonism and the Late Ancient World (2013) 395
father Novenson, Monotheism and Christology in Greco-Roman Antiquity (2020) 209
firstborn Novenson, Monotheism and Christology in Greco-Roman Antiquity (2020) 209
gnostic, gnosticism Corrigan and Rasimus, Gnosticism, Platonism and the Late Ancient World (2013) 395
god Corrigan and Rasimus, Gnosticism, Platonism and the Late Ancient World (2013) 395
heaven Novenson, Monotheism and Christology in Greco-Roman Antiquity (2020) 209
i am' Corrigan and Rasimus, Gnosticism, Platonism and the Late Ancient World (2013) 395
irenaeus Corrigan and Rasimus, Gnosticism, Platonism and the Late Ancient World (2013) 395
johannine, prologue Corrigan and Rasimus, Gnosticism, Platonism and the Late Ancient World (2013) 395
johannine Novenson, Monotheism and Christology in Greco-Roman Antiquity (2020) 209
life, bread of Corrigan and Rasimus, Gnosticism, Platonism and the Late Ancient World (2013) 395
life, eve Corrigan and Rasimus, Gnosticism, Platonism and the Late Ancient World (2013) 395
life, johannine concept Corrigan and Rasimus, Gnosticism, Platonism and the Late Ancient World (2013) 395
life, mother of the Corrigan and Rasimus, Gnosticism, Platonism and the Late Ancient World (2013) 395
logos, christological Corrigan and Rasimus, Gnosticism, Platonism and the Late Ancient World (2013) 395
logos Novenson, Monotheism and Christology in Greco-Roman Antiquity (2020) 209
logos prophorikos, philos second god Corrigan and Rasimus, Gnosticism, Platonism and the Late Ancient World (2013) 395
matter, sensible Corrigan and Rasimus, Gnosticism, Platonism and the Late Ancient World (2013) 395
mother Novenson, Monotheism and Christology in Greco-Roman Antiquity (2020) 209
ophians, ophites Corrigan and Rasimus, Gnosticism, Platonism and the Late Ancient World (2013) 395
pagan, paganism Novenson, Monotheism and Christology in Greco-Roman Antiquity (2020) 209
philo of alexandria Corrigan and Rasimus, Gnosticism, Platonism and the Late Ancient World (2013) 395
philosophy Novenson, Monotheism and Christology in Greco-Roman Antiquity (2020) 209
plato Corrigan and Rasimus, Gnosticism, Platonism and the Late Ancient World (2013) 395
platonizing sethians Corrigan and Rasimus, Gnosticism, Platonism and the Late Ancient World (2013) 395
throne Novenson, Monotheism and Christology in Greco-Roman Antiquity (2020) 209
torah Novenson, Monotheism and Christology in Greco-Roman Antiquity (2020) 209
triad, father-mother-son Corrigan and Rasimus, Gnosticism, Platonism and the Late Ancient World (2013) 395
uncreated Novenson, Monotheism and Christology in Greco-Roman Antiquity (2020) 209
valentinians, valentinianism Corrigan and Rasimus, Gnosticism, Platonism and the Late Ancient World (2013) 395
wisdom Novenson, Monotheism and Christology in Greco-Roman Antiquity (2020) 209