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Philo of Alexandria was a Jewish philosopher who lived in Roman-ruled Egypt. When the Jews of Alexandria were ordered to defy their beliefs and worship Gaius Julius Caesar, also known as Caligula, they sent Philo to plead their case to the emperor. Philo’s writings provide an account of the atrocities the Jews faced for their refusal to glorify a man as a god. They were dragged to death, burned...

were combined, one that should contain the essential principle both of the male that sows and of the female that receives the seed. [15] Now to each of the days He assigned some of the portions of the whole, not including, however, the first day, which He does not even call “first,” lest it should be reckoned with the others, but naming it “one”a He designates it by a name which precisely hits the mark, for He discerned in it and expressed by the title which He gives it the nature and appellation
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