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The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah Vol 1 - Predestination

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Testament teaching, this part <strong>of</strong> Philo's system<br />

raises <strong>the</strong> most interesting questions. But it is just<br />

here that our difficulties are greatest. We can<br />

underst<strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> Platonic conception <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Logos as<br />

<strong>the</strong> ' archetypal idea,' <strong>and</strong> that <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Stoics as <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong> * world-reason' pervading matter. Similarly,<br />

we can perceive, how <strong>the</strong> Apocrypha—especially<br />

<strong>the</strong> Book <strong>of</strong> Wisdom—following up <strong>the</strong> Old<br />

Testament typical trutii concerning * Wisdom' (as<br />

specially set forth in <strong>the</strong> Book <strong>of</strong> Proverbs) almost<br />

arrived so far as to present * Wisdom' as a special<br />

* Subsistence' (hy-postatising it). More than this,<br />

in Talmudical writings we find mention not only <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong> Shem, or * Name,' * but also <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> *<br />

Shekhinah,' God as manifest <strong>and</strong> present, which is<br />

sometimes also presented as <strong>the</strong> Ruach ha Qodesh,<br />

or Holy Spirit.* But in <strong>the</strong> Targumim we meet yet<br />

ano<strong>the</strong>r expression, which, strange to say, never<br />

occurs in <strong>the</strong><br />

I At <strong>the</strong> same time <strong>the</strong>re is a remarkable difference<br />

here between Philo <strong>and</strong> Rabbiiiism. Philo holds<br />

that <strong>the</strong> creation <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> world was brought about by

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