“powers” of God (in the rabbinic writings, the “two measures,” or middôṯ), and identified these “powers” with the names of God. In Philo these powers are frequently characterized as the creative power and ordering or ruling power of God. In commenting on Exodus 25:22, Philo describes the ark of the covenant, identifies the two cherubim with the two powers of God, in whose midst is the Logos, and goes on to say: “And from the divine Logos as from a spring, there divide and break forth two powers.