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More than one commentator, I find, has suspected that the Wisdom of Solomon and the second book of Maccabees were by the same author.
I think this nothing. Ib.p.
36. Philo throws out a number of declarations, that shew his own and the Jewish belief in a secondary sort of God, a God subordinate in origin to the Father of all, yet most intimately united with him, and sharing his most unquestionable honours. The belief of the Alexandrian Jews who had acquired Greek philosophy, no doubt;--but of the Palestine Jews? Ib.2.p.
48. St.John also is witnessed by a heathen (Amelius,) and by one who put him down for a barbarian, to have represented the Logos as "the Maker of all things," as "with 'God'," and as "God." And St.John is attested to have declared this, "not even as shaded over, but on the contrary as placed in full view." Stranger still.
Whitaker could scarcely have read the Greek.
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