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Philo,
the Architect of Christian Ideas
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Philo Judaeus was born in Alexandria at about 20-15 BCE and
died there at about 45-50 CE. He was a Greek-speaking Jewish
theologian-philosopher, the most important representative of
Alexandrian Hellenistic Judaism. He claimed to have been
divinely inspired: "... my own soul, which was
accustomed frequently to be seized with a certain divine
inspiration ..." With such statements his writings
acquired a semi-sacred status. They were read and cherished by
the early Hellenist Christians. He used the allegorical method
of Plato, the Stoics and other Greeks. With this method he
developed the Old Testament allegorical interpretations, which
were adopted by the writers of the New Testament and by the
early Christian Fathers. Origen read Philo. He wrote, "We
{Christians} maintain that the law has a twofold
interpretation, one literal and the other spiritual {allegorical-symbolic},
as was also taught by some of our predecessors {e.g.
Philo}."
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