[1583] De mundi opificio, cap. 40.
[1584] Ibid., caps. 30-42.
[1585] For the later influence of such doctrines in the Mohammedan world see D. B. Macdonald, Muslim Theology, Jurisprudence, and Constitutional Theory, 1903, pp. 42-3, concerning the “Seveners” and the “Twelvers” and the doctrine of the hidden Iman.
[1586] Ibid., “Thus we have a series of seven times seven Imans, the first, and thereafter each seventh, having the superior dignity of Prophet. The last of the forty-nine Imans, this Muhammad ibn Isma’il, is the greatest and last of the Prophets.”
[1587] De vita contemplativa, cap. 8. It will be recalled that the fifty books of the Digest of Justinian are similarly divided.
[1588] De mundi opificio, cap. 3.
[1589] De mundi opificio, caps. 15-16. See also on perfect numbers On the Allegories of the Sacred Laws.
[1590] Ibid., cap. 20.
[1591] Vita Mosis, I, 17.
[1592] De mundi opificio, cap. 24.