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* * The language is very similar to Philo's; flowing, lively and happy. How is it possible to have read the short Hebraistic sentences of the Book of Wisdom, and the long involved periods that characterize the style of all Philo's known writings, and yet attribute both to one writer? But indeed I know no instance of assertions made so audaciously, or of passages misrepresented and even mistranslated so grossly, as in this work of Whitaker.
His system is absolute naked Tritheism. Ib. The righteous man is shadowed out by the author with a plain reference to our Saviour himself.
"'Let us lie in wait for the righteous'," &c. How then could Philo have remained a Jew? Ib.2.p.
195. In all effects that are voluntary, the cause must be prior to the effect, as the father is to the son in human generation.
But in all that are necessary, the effect must be coeval with the cause; as the stream is with the fountain, and light with the sun.
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