Common use of Xxxxx’x reception of the Bible Clause in Contracts

Xxxxx’x reception of the Bible. Xxxxxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx Several recent studies focused in particular on how Philo related to the Bible. Xxxxx held the Bible, which he only knew in its Greek translation, in high regard as the culmination and source of all wisdom. Especially important to Philo was the Pentateuch, which he considered to be the ‘oracles of Xxxxx’.125 This 123 Similarly in Timmers, ‘Πνεῦμα’, p. 268. Incidentally, Xxxxx himself described a medicine as a mixture with properties of its own, exceeding the properties of the elements it consists of (see Conf. 187). 124 As Runia put it: ‘There is clearly a consistent rationale behind his procedure. It resembles the procedure of the Middle Platonists, but is not wholly the same’ (Xxxxx, Timaeus, p. 519). And as Xxxxxxxx, Xxxxx, Xxxxxxx and Xxxxxxxx xxx xxx Xxxx put it, although Xxxxx ‘did not work out a systematic presentation’ of his philosophical ideas, ‘this does not mean that he did not have a comprehensive understanding of the cosmos’ (Xxxxxxxx/Xxxxxxx/xxx xxx Xxxx, ‘Philo’, p. 282). Xxxxxxx writes: ‘What is striking about [Xxxxx’x] allegory is its systematic structure as it emerges in Philo’s works, for Xxxxx employs recurring allegorical equivalencies to put together a more or less systematic elucidation of the Pentateuch as a whole, not just individual episodes’ (Xxxxxxx, Xxxxx, p. 86).