Philo Judaeus De Plantatione 19

ed. Paul Wendland

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[19] γάρ φησιν „ὁ θεὸς εἰς τὸ πρόσωπον αὐτοῦ πνοὴν ζωῆς“ (Gen. 2,7),
ὥστε ἀνάγκη πρὸς τὸν ἐκπέμποντα τὸν δεχόμενον ἀπεικονίσθαι· διὸ καὶ λέγεται κατ’ εἰκόνα θεοῦ τὸν ἄνθρωπον γεγενῆσθαι (Gen. 1,27), οὐ μὴν κατ’ εἰκόνα τινὸς τῶν γεγονότων.

De Plantatione. Philo Judaeus. ed. Paul Wendland. Germany. 2014.

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

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De Plantatione (Greek) (Philo Judaeus. Opera quae supersunt, Volume 2. Wendland, Paul, editor. Berlin: Reimer, 1897.)

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About the Planting of Noah First1KGreek (The works of Philo Judaeus, the contemporary of Josephus, volume 1. Yonge, C. D., translator. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1854.) — 19 focus

[19] For, says Moses, "God breathed into man’s face the breath of life," ¹ so that it follows of necessity, that he that received the breath must be fashioned after the model of him who sent it forth. On which account it is said too, that "Man was made after the image of God," ² and not after the image of any created being.

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