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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...

it is evident that He made incorporeal and intelligible ideas in accordance with the intelligible nature which these sense-perceptible things on earth were meant to imitate. 3. (Gen. 2:6) What is the meaning of the words, “a spring went up from the earth and watered all the face of the earth”? How is it possible to water all the earth from one spring? Not only because of its size but also because of the unevenness of mountains and plains. Unless indeed as all the cavalry force of the king is called
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