Opening On Providence: Fragment I — Philo of Alexandria in Plato Scroll…
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Philo of Alexandria · C. D. Yonge translation
ON PROVIDENCE (FRAGMENT I) From Eusebius P. E. 7.21.336b-337a But that you may not think that I am here arguing in a sophistical manner, I will produce a man who is a Hebrew as the interpreter for you of the meaning of the scripture; a man who inherited from his father a most accurate knowledge of his national customs and laws, and who had learnt the doctrines contained in them from learned teachers; for such a man was Philo. Listen then, to him, and hear how he interprets the words of God. Why, then, does he use the expression, “In the image of God I made Man,” as if he were speaking of that of some other God, and not of having made him in the likeness of himself? This expression is used with great beauty and wisdom. For it was impossible that anything mortal should be made in the likeness of the most high God the Father of the universe; but it could only be made in the likeness of the …
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