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Coleridge’s Literary Remains, Volume 4.

PART III
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Philo and the author of the Wisdom of Solomon,--( or rather, perhaps, authors; for the first ten chapters form a complete work of themselves,)--were both Cabalistico-Platonizing Jews of Alexandria.

As far as, being such, they must agree, so far they do agree; and as widely as such men could differ, do they differ.

Not only the style of the Wisdom of Solomon is generically different from Philo's,--so much so that I should deem it a free translation from a Hebrew original,--but also in all the 'minutiae' of traditional history and dogma it contradicts Philo.

Philo attributes the creation of man to angels; and they infused the evil principle through their own imperfections.

In the Book of Wisdom, God created man spotless, and the Devil tempting him occasioned the Fall.


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