The ancient Greek philosophers believed that a person has both a body and a soul; however, they considered the natural world insignificant, and being consistent with this, they saw the body as an insignificant container for the soul. Plato compared the physical body to a tomb from which the soul will someday escape to arise into true life. The Hellenized Jewish philosopher, Philo (circa 10 B.C.-A.D. 50), echoed Plato’s ideas writing that the soul is a prisoner sentenced to confinement in the body