Philo Judaeus, Quis Rerum Divinarum Heres Sit, ed. Paul Wendland, 165

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[165] ὡς εἶπον, ἰσότητι. 34 ψῦχός γε μὴν καὶ καῦμα καὶ θέρος καὶ
ἔαρ ἀνέγραψε (Gen. 8,22), τὰς ἐτησίους ὥρας πάλιν τῷ αὐτῷ τομεῖ διαιρουμένας. αἵ γε μὴν πρὸ ἡλίου τρεῖς ἡμέραι ταῖς μεθ’ ἥλιον ἰσάριθμοι γεγόνασιν (Gen. 1,5 ss.), ἑξάδος τμηθείσης ἰσότητι πρὸς αἰῶνος καὶ χρόνου δήλωσιν· αἰῶνι μὲν γὰρ τὰς πρὸ ἡλίου τρεῖς ἀνατέθεικε, χρόνῳ δὲ τὰς μεθ’ ἥλιον, ὅς ἐστι μίμημα αἰῶνος.

Quis Rerum Divinarum Heres Sit. Philo Judaeus. ed. Paul Wendland. Germany. 2014.

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Quis Rerum Divinarum Heres Sit (Greek) (Philo Judaeus. Opera quae supersunt, Volume 3. Wendland, Paul, editor. Berlin: Reimer, 1898.)

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On the question, Who is the Heir of Divine Things First1KGreek (The works of Philo Judaeus, the contemporary of Josephus, volume 2. Yonge, C. D., translator. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1854.) — 165 focus

And he apportioned cold and heat, and summer ¹²³⁴⁵ and spring, the different seasons of the year, divided by the same dividing Word. And the three days which passed before the creation of the sun, are equal in number to the three days of the first week which came after the creation of the sun, the number six being dissected equally in order to display the character of eternity and of time. For thus God allotted three days to eternity before the appearance of the sun, and those which came after the sun he allotted to time; the sun being an imitation of eternity, and time and eternity being the two primary powers of the living God;

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