Philo Complete Works (2017)

This may prove to be a hard slog. The book is very long, and the works are very dry, mainly because each chapter is written as a philosophical treatise But, I suspect, there will be many gems contained therein, like this bit:

And he says that the world was made in six days, not because the Creator stood in need of a length of time (for it is natural that God should do everything at once, not merely by uttering a command, but by even thinking of it); but because the things created required arrangement; and number is akin to arrangement; and, of all numbers, six is, by the laws of nature, the most productive: for of all the numbers, from the unit upwards, it is the first perfect one, being made equal to its parts, and being made complete by them; the number three being half of it, and the number two a third of it, and the unit a sixth of it, and, so to say, it is formed so as to be both male and female, and is made up of the power of both natures; for in existing things the odd number is the male, and the even number is the female;

of Alexandria, Philo Judaeus. Delphi Complete Works of Philo of Alexandria (Illustrated) (Delphi Ancient Classics Book 77) . Delphi Classics. Kindle Edition.

None of this is new, of course, but I am inspired by the ideas which I have covered before being highlighted here.

I shall report back, over the next coming months, of anything that I discover while reading this book.