De Plantatione

Philo Judaeus

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

For, says Moses, "God breathed into man’s face the breath of life," [*](Genesis ii. 7. ) so that it follows of necessity, that he that received the breath must be fashioned after the model of him who sent it forth. On which account it is said too, that "Man was made after the image of God," [*](Genesis i. 27. ) and not after the image of any created being.