C. That is, the regenerated, deathless, and ever-continuing

[children] are many, although few are they [thus] generated ; but the fleshly (H. he says) all perish, though many are they [thus] generated.
' viirpdUriccrai, a synonym of vmkurat^ which, besides the meaning of '* coming and going," or ** moving about," also signifies " is sold " ; but I do not see the appositeness of the remark, unless the •* ignorant" so understood it.
« Is. liv. 1 ; quoted also in Gal. iv. 27. Of, Philo, De Exeerat^ § 7 ; M. ii. 436, P. 936 (Ri. v. 264) : "For when she [the Soul] is a multitude of passions and filled with vices, her children swarming over her — pleasures, appetites, folly, intemperance, nnri^teousness, injustice — she is weak and sick, and Ues at death's door, dying ; but when she becomes sterile, and ceases to bring them forth, or even casts them from her, forthwith, from the change, she becometh a chaste virgin, and, receiving the Divine Seed, she fashions and engenders marvellous excellencies that Nature prizeth highly — prudence, courage, temperance, justice, holiness, piety, and the rest of the virtues and good dispositions."
There are, thus, seen to be identical ideas of a distinctly marked character in both J. and Philo. Did J., then, belong to Philo's " circle " ? Or, rather, did Philo represent a propagandist fide of J.'s circle ? In other words, can we possibly have before 08 in J. a Therapeut allegorical exercise, based on S., by an exceedingly liberal-minded Hellenistic Jewish mystic? VOL. I. 12
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