Philo Judaeus De Opificio Mundi 98

ed. Leopold Cohn

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[98] πρὸς δὲ τοῖς εἰρημένοις κἀκεῖνο λέγοιτ’ ἂν δεόντως,
ὅτι τὰ μὲν τρία ἐπιπέδου σχήματός ἐστιν ἀριθμός — ἐπειδὴ σημεῖον μὲν κατὰ μονάδα, γραμμὴ δὲ κατὰ δυάδα, ἐπίπεδον δὲ κατὰ τριάδα τέτακται —, τὰ δὲ τέσσαρα στερεοῦ κατὰ τὴν τοῦ ἑνὸς πρόσθεσιν, βάθους ἐπιπέδῳ προστεθέντος· ἐξ οὗ δῆλόν ἐστιν ὅτι ἡ τῆς ἑβδομάδος οὐσία γεωμετρίας καὶ στερεομετρίας ἀρχὴ καὶ συνελόντι φράσαι
ἀσωμάτων ὁμοῦ καὶ σωμάτων.

De Opificio Mundi. Philo Judaeus. ed. Leopold Cohn. Germany. 2014.

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

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De Opificio Mundi (Greek) (Philo Judaeus. Opera que supersunt, Volume 1. Cohn, Leonard, editor. Berlin: Reimer, 1896.)

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On the Creation of the World First1KGreek (The works of Philo Judaeus, the contemporary of Josephus, volume 1. Yonge, C. D., translator. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1854.) — 98 focus

[98] And besides what has been already advanced, this also may be asserted that three is the number of a plane figure, since a point has been laid down to be, according to a unit, and a line according to the number two, and a plane superficies according to to the number three. Also, four is the number of a cube, by the addition of one to the number of a plane superficies, depth being added to the superficies. From which it is plain that the essence of the number seven is the foundation of geometry and trigonometry; and in a word, of all incorporeal and corporeal substances.

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