Philo Judaeus, Quis Rerum Divinarum Heres Sit, ed. Paul Wendland, 227

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[227] 47 ἄξιον δὲ σκέψασθαι, διὰ τί τῆς τραπέζης καὶ τοῦ θυμιατηρίου τὰ μέτρα δηλώσας τῆς λυχνίας οὐδὲν ἀνέγραψε· μήποτε δι’ ἐκεῖνο, ὅτι τὰ μὲν στοιχεῖα καὶ τὰ θνητὰ ἀποτελέσματα, ὧν ἡ τράπεζα καὶ τὸ θυμιατήριον σύμβολα, μεμέτρηται περατωθέντα ὑπ’ οὐρανοῦ — ἀεὶ γὰρ τὸ περιέχον τοῦ περιεχομένου μέτρον —, ὁ δ’
οὐρανός, οὗ σύμβολόν ἐστιν ἡ λυχνία, ἀπειρομεγέθης ἐστί.

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

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

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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.) — 227 focus

And it is worth while to consider why, after having explained the measures of the table and of the altar of incense, he has given no such description of the candlestick; may it not be, perhaps, for the reason that the elements and all the mortal things which are compounded of them, of which the table and the altar of incense are symbols, have been measured, inasmuch as they are terminated in heaven? For that which surrounds anything is invariably the measure of that which is surrounded; but the heaven, of which the candlestick is the symbol, is of infinite magnitude;

Philo Judaeus Quis Rerum Divinarum Heres Sit 227

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