The Works of Philo Judaeus, Vol. IV (Yonge)

On a Contemplative Life, or on the Virtues of Suppliants 1 On the Incorruptibility of the World 21 Against Flaccus 61 On the Virtues and on the Office of Ambassadors. Addressed to Caius 99 Concerning the "World 180 The Fragments of the Lost "Works 210 Fragments extracted from the Parallels of John of Damascus 242 Fragments from a Monkish Manuscript 257 Fragments preserved by Antonius 271 Fragments from an Anonymous Collection in the Bodleian Library at Oxford 276 Fragments from an Unpublished Manuscript in the Library of the French King 277 A Volume of Questions, and Solutions to those Questions, which arise in Genesis 284 Index to the Four Volumes ... 465 A TEEATISE ON A CONTEMPLATIVE LIFE, OR. ON THE VIRTUES OF SUPPLIANTS. I. Having mentioned the Essenes, who in all respects selected for their admiration and for their especial adoption tho practical course of life, and who excel in all, or what perhaps may be a less unpopular and invidious thing to say, in most of its parts, I will now proceed, in the regular order of my subject, to speak of those who have embraced the speculative life, and I will say what appears to me to be desirable to be said on the subject, not drawing any fictitious statements from my own head for the sake of improving the appearance of that side of the question which nearly all poets…