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Chapter XI.
Philo2391
| 2391 Visited Rome a.d. 40, and must have lived
(Edersheim) ten or fifteen years after his return. | the Jew, an
Alexandrian of the priestly class, is placed by us among the
ecclesiastical writers on the ground that, writing a book concerning
the first church of Mark the evangelist at Alexandria, he writes to our
praise, declaring not only that they were there, but also that they
were in many provinces and calling their habitations monasteries. From
this2392
it appears that the church of those
that believed in Christ at first, was such as now the monks desire to
imitate,2393
| 2393 desire to imitate the mss.; strive to be Cypr. Fabr. Val., on account of
the difficult construction with imitate. | that is, such that nothing is
the peculiar property of any one of them, none of them rich, none poor,
that patrimonies are divided among the needy, that they have leisure
for prayer and psalms, for doctrine also and ascetic practice, that
they were in fact as Luke declares believers were at first at
Jerusalem. They say that under Caius2394
| 2394 CaiusCypr. Fabr. Val.; Gaius all the
mss.; omit Her. | Caligula
he ventured to Rome, whither he had been sent as legate of his nation,
and that when a second time he had come to Claudius, he spoke in the
same city with the apostle Peter and enjoyed his friendship, and for
this reason also adorned the adherents of Mark, Peter’s disciple
at Alexandria, with his praises. There are distinguished and
innumerable works by this man: On the five books of Moses, one
book Concerning the confusion of tongues, one book On nature
and invention, one book On the things which our senses desire
and we detest, one book On learning, one book On the heir
of divine things, one book On the division of equals and
contraries, one book On the three virtues, one book On
why in Scripture the names of many persons are changed, two books
On covenants, one book On the life of a wise man, one
book Concerning giants, five books That dreams are sent by
God, five books of Questions and answers on Exodus, four
books On the tabernacle and the Decalogue, as well as books
On victims and promises or curses, On Providence, On the Jews, On
the manner of one’s life, On Alexander, and That dumb
beasts have right reason, and That every fool should be a
slave, and On the lives of the Christians, of which we spoke
above, that is, lives of apostolic men, which also he entitled, On
those who practice the divine life, because in truth they
contemplate divine things and ever pray to God, also under other
categories, two On agriculture, two On drunkenness. There
are other monuments of his genius which have not come to our hands.
Concerning him there is a proverb among the Greeks “Either Plato
philonized, or Philo platonized,” that is, either Plato followed
Philo, or Philo, Plato, so great is the similarity of ideas and
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