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Philo: Allegorical Interpretation, I
C. D. Yonge (1854–1855) · Translated text with edition notes
Section VI
VI. (16) "Accordingly, on the seventh day, God caused to rest from all his works which he had Made."
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Now, the meaning of this sentence is something of this kind. God ceases from forming the races of mortal creatures when he begins to create the divine races, which are akin to the nature of the number seven. And the reference which is here contained to their moral character is of the following nature. When that reason which is holy in accordance with the number seven has entered into the soul the number six is then arrested, and all the mortal things which this number appears to make.
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