De Plantatione

Philo Judaeus

The works of Philo Judaeus, the contemporary of Josephus, volume 1. Yonge, C. D., translator. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1854.

"But in the fourth year," says the scripture, "all the fruit of the tree shall be sacred, being praised by the Lord." [*](Leviticus xix. 25. ) The prophetic books appear often to dignify the number four in many places of the exposition of the law, and most especially in the account of the creation of the universe;