Common use of Quod Deus Sit Immutabilis Clause in Contracts

Quod Deus Sit Immutabilis. Structure of argumentation Philo engaged the matter of why in the Bible human characteristics are ascribed to God in the treatise Quod Deus Sit Immutabilis. This treatise is part of a large body of treatises, usually named the Allegorical Commentary, in which Philo 257 Philo’s anthropological outlooks will be more elaborately discussed in Chapter 3. — Philo’s doctrine of God — discusses aspects of Gn. 2–41.258 In the treatise Quod Deus Sit Immutabilis Philo presents an interpretation of Gn. 6:4–12, verses presenting God’s motive for the Flood. Part of Philo’s interpretation is a discussion of why in these verses God is presented as having changed his mind. This presentation of God leads Philo to bring forward arguments for God’s immutability. Philo’s consideration of the immutability of God, however, is not the main issue of the treatise; rather, it is a subsidiary argument to the treatise’s central message.259 The central message of Quod Deus Sit Immutabilis is that humans can only become virtuous when divine reason is present in their soul and when they have chosen to follow its guidance. Such souls follow the way of wisdom: they are oriented towards God and heaven and therefore towards truly existent and stable things. The treatise is structured as follows. Introduction of the theme of this treatise, connecting it to the previous one (Gn. 6:4).