A quotation from Philo of Alexandria
Quotation
The Logos is the image of God, and through it the whole world was framed.
Philo of Alexandria
The Jewish philosopher who read the Torah through Greek eyes and gave the West its idea of the Logos as the bridge between God and world.
Philo lived in the great Jewish community of Alexandria and set himself a task that would echo for two thousand years: to show that the God of Moses and the reason of the Greeks were one. Reading scripture allegorically, he found Plato's Forms in Genesis and Stoic logic in the Law. Between the unknowable God and the created world he placed the Logos, the divine reason through which the world is made and known, a notion that would shape Christian theology and Neoplatonism alike. He once led an embassy to the emperor Caligula on behalf of his people, and lived to write about its failure.
Understanding This Quotation
What does Philo of Alexandria mean by this quotation?
The Jewish philosopher who read the Torah through Greek eyes and gave the West its idea of the Logos as the bridge between God and world. Philo lived in the great Jewish community of Alexandria and set himself a task that would echo for two thousand years: to show that the God of Moses and the reason of the Greeks were one. Reading scripture allegorically,…