A Book of Laws, says Philo, is fitly prefaced by a Cosmogony. The theme dealt with by a Cosmogony is, indeed, too lofty for adequate treatment. In Moses’ treatment of it, two salient points at once meet the eye. The world’s origin is ascribed to a Maker, who is Himself unoriginate, and who cares for what He has made. By “six days” Moses does not indicate a space of time in which the world was made, but the principles of order and productivity which governed its making. Before