[Footnote 113: Stoical influence is also strong in Philo.]
[Footnote 114: The Jewish writer Aristobulus (about 160 B.C.) is said to have used the same argument in an exposition of the Pentateuch addressed to Ptolemy Philometor.]
[Footnote 115: Compare Philo's own account (in Flaceum) of the anti-Semitic outrages at Alexandria.]
[Footnote 116: There is a very explicit identification of Christ with [Greek: Nous] in the second book of the Miscellanies: "He says, Whoso hath ears to hear, let him hear. And who is 'He'? Let Epicharmus answer: [Greek: Nous hora]," etc.]
[Footnote 117: See Bigg, Christian Platonists of Alexandria, especially pp. 92, 93.]
[Footnote 118: [Greek: Pistis] is here used in the familiar sense (which falls far short of the Johannine) of assent to particular dogmas. [Greek: Gnôsis] welds these together into a consistent whole, and at the same time confers a more immediate apprehension of truth.]
[Footnote 119: [Greek: askêsis] or [Greek: praxis].]
[Footnote 120: Strom, v. 10. 63.]
[Footnote 121: See, further, Appendices B and C.]
[Footnote 122: In Origen, [Greek: sophia] is a higher term than
[Greek: gnôsis].]