This therefore may be called the first vision in the sacred law which is familiar; and the other has a general cha- racter, for the number ninety is fertile; on which account also it happens that the woman begins to bring forth in the ninth month; but the tenth is the sacred and perfect number; and when the two numbers nine and ten are multiplied together ninety is made, as being the virtue of the sacred birth, receiving a fertile generation according to the number nine, and a holy one according to ten.
Why did Abraham say to Grod, 0 may this my son Ishmael live before thee?* 57. In the first place, I do not despair, says he, 0 Lord, of a better generation, but I believe thy promise: never- theless, it would be a sufficient blessing for me for this son to live who in the meantime is a living son, standing visibly, * Genesis xvii. 18.
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS. 461 even though he be not so according to the legitimate blood, but is only born of a concubine.
In the second place, that blessing which he is now asking for is an additional one; for he does not entreat for life alone for his sons, but for an especial life in God; and we must suppose that there is nothing more perfect than the rejoicing in the presence of God with a salutary soundness of mind, which is equal to immortality.
In the third place, he by a conjecture intimates that the divine law, when heard, ought not to be considered enough if merely heard, but that it ought also to enter more deeply into the inward man, and to form his principal part; for that life is worthy of being beheld by the Deity which is formed in accordance with his word.
Why does the divine oracle, in the way of intimation, say to Abraham, Yes, be it so: behold Sarah thy wife shall also bring forth a son unto thee? * 58. The meaning of this sentence is as follows: that confession and admission, says God, is on my part an admission of thy wish, being manifestly full of unadulterated joy; and your faith is not doubtful, but without any hesita- tion it has a share of modest awe and reverence; therefore that which thou hast received before, as to be done unto thee on account of thy faith in me, shall certainly be done; for this is what is meant by yes.
Why does he say, But behold I will also listen to thee concerning Ishmael, and I will bless him, and he shall become the father of twelve nations?f 59. God says, I will grant to thee both the first and the second blessing, that is to say, both the blessings of nature and the blessings of instruction; by nature that which is according to the legitimate course of nature, that is Isaac, and by instruction that which is according to Ishmael, who is not legitimate: for hearing, when compared with sight, is like the illegitimate compared with the legitimate, and what is brought about by instruction is not of the same class with that which owes its existence to nature; and the man who is desirous of encyclical wisdom becomes the father of * GeneBis xvii. 19. t Genesis xvii. 20.
462 PHILO JUD.EUS.
nations, for the encyclical number is a period of twelve days and years.
Why does he say, But I will set up my covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bring forth about this time in the succeeding year? * 60. As in men's wills some persons are set down as heirs, and some are entered as worthy of gifts which they are to receive from the heirs, so also in the divine testament that man is set down as the heir who is by nature a worthy disciple of Grod being adorned with all perfect virtues; but he who is introduced by learning, and is made subject to the law of wisdom, and partakes in encyclical instruction, is not at all an heir, but only a receiver of gifts gratuitously given.
But it is said with great wisdom and propriety that his mother shall bring forth Isaac in the succeeding year, since this birth unto life does not belong to the present time, but to another great and holy time; and that which is divine rejoices in excessive abundance, and is by no means like the nations of this world.
Why does he say, Abraham was ninety and nine years old when he was circumcised, and Ishmael his son was thirteen years old? f 61. The number of ninety and nine years is arranged here as approximating to the number a hundred. And it is in accordance with this number that it is arranged that the seed of the perfect man becomes the beginning of generation, which appears more evidently in the number a hundred; but the number thirteen is composed of the first square numbers of four and nine, the odd and even numbers; so that the even number has for its sides a twofold material form; and the odd number has an operative form, from all which a triple number is made, which is the greatest and most per- fect of the festival victims which the examinations of the sacred scriptures contain.
This is one reason. A second also it may be allowed to us to mention, that the age namely of thirteen years is very near to and a partaker with the fourteenth year, in which the motions of seed towards generation begin to have life. In * Genesis xvii. 21. t Genesis xvii. 24.
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS. 463 order, therefore, that no foreign seed should be sown, he arranged that the first generations should be kept^mre, figuring the instrument of generating under the figure of generation.
In the third place, he teaches that he who is about to go through the operations of matrimony ought by all means first of all to cut away concupiscence, reproving all las- civious and effeminate persons as those who bring together superfluous mixtures which were not for the sake of the gene- ration of children but to gratify incontinent desires.
"Why did Abraham also circumcise strangers?* 62. The wise man is as useful as the humane man, who saves and invites to himself not only his relations andn eigh- bours, but also strangers and men of another family, giving them a share of his own habit of patient and religious con- tinence; for these are the foundations of constancy, which is the object of all virtue, and the point at which it rests.
* Genesis xvii. 27.
INDEX.
A, the letter, the very first element of language, iv. 444.
Aaron, meaning of the name, i. 119, 140; the brother of Moses, iii. 21; his mouthpiece, interpreter, and prophet, i. 251; changes the river into blood, iii. 22; other miracles performed by him, 23; constituted high priest, 103; his sacred vest- ments, ii. 66; his sacrifice consum- ed by fire from heaven, iii. 106; his rod blossoms, 111.
Abaj, the temple of; burnt, iv. 231.
Abel and Cain, Sacrifices of, i. 207.
Abel, meaning of, i. 207; is a shep- herd, 209, iv. 315; his sacrifice, i. 228; offered the first-born, 288.
Abihu, meaning of, ii. 81.
Abimelech, covenant of Isaac with, iv. 278.
Abraham, Life of, ii. 396.
Abraham, Migration of, ii. 43.
Abraham, the founder of the Jewish nation, iv. 181; meaning of his name, i. 129; his departure from his country, ii. 43; symbolical meaning of, 44; his trance, 143; promises of God to, ii. 147, 238; iv. 406; symbols represented by the name, ii. 251; his offering of Isaac, 333; fortune of his posterity, iv. 4 18; his prayer for Ishmael, 460.
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, symbols of the three natures of God, ii. 240.
Abram, his name changed to Abra- ham, i. 176; ii. 249; iv. 443; symbols represented by the name of Abram, ii. 251. YOL. IV. H Abuse, a wise man refuses to engage in a contest of, i. 400.
Abyss, what, i. 8.
Acheman, meaning of, i. 299.
Actions, various classes of, according to the dialecticians, i. 406.
Actors, censure of, iv. 1 45.
Adah, meaning of, i. 303.
Adam, interpretation of the name, i. 75; the last work in the creation of the world, 22; his beauty both of soul and body, 40; the viceroy of God, 44; woman the cause of his fall, 44; expelled from paradise, 46, 120. See Man.
Adam and Eve, iv. 248, Adin. See Eden.
Adultery, symbolical meaning of, i. 146; the commandment against, iii. 164, 173, 305; trial of the wo- man accused of, 317.
Advisers, remarks on, iv. 266, 275.
jEgina swallowed up by the sea, iv. 58.
yEschvlus, citations from, iv. 40; iii 557- Affliction, what kind of, profitable, ii. 193.
Agar, meaning of, i. 215.
Age, a name given to the life of the world, ii. 291.
Agrippa, king, his visit to Alexandria, iv. 66; insulted by the populace, 68; protects the Jews against Flac- cus, 82; his fear of Caligula, 158; writes to him against his projected desecration of the Temple, 160.
Agrippa, Marcus, his offerings in the temple of Jerusalem, iv. 164.
466 INDEX.
Agrippina, death of, alluded to, iv. 63. Adeem, a place with twelve fountains and seventy palm-trees, symbolical of the twelve tribes and seventy elders, iii. 42. Air, the, symbolically represented by a ladder reaching from earth to heaven, ii. 322; filled with living things, i. 331; the cause of health and disease, 331. Air and light, creation of, i. 7. \lexander, of Macedon, foolish boast of, i. 191; fall of the successors of; ii. 480. \lexandria, turbulent character ot its people, iv. 67; their oppression of the Jews, 69, 125. Allegories of the Sacred Laws, On the, i. 53. Almond, character of the, m. 1 12; blossoming of Aaron's rod, in. 3; symbolical of perfect virtue, 112. Aloadce, fable of the, ii. 2. Altar, why built by Noah, iv. 380. Altars, why two, ordered to be pre- pared, iii. 233. Amalek, meaning of, ii. 168. Amalekites, king of the, destroyed, iii. 48.
AMBASSADORS, TREATISE ON THE Virtues and on the Office of, iv.99.,.,..
Amoritcs, the, symbolical meaning ot, ii. 155; sins of the, iv. 421.
Amram, the father of Moses, n. 184 Anaphe, a name of the island ot Delos, iv. 53.
Anarchy, the cause of evils, n. 394; evils of, iv. 243.
Anaxagoras, inconsiderate conduct ot,, iv. 4; his astronomy, 22; his for- ( titude, hi. 529...| Ancestry, pride of, ridiculed, m. 497. i Andros, the island of, a place of ban- ishment, iv. 92. \ngels, the ministers of God, n. 2.57; both good and bad, i. 332; called demons by philosophers, 331; why made to resemble men, iv. 252; their likeness assumed by God, n. 341; assume the human shape, iv.
334; visit of the, to Abraham, ii.
418; figurativeh explained, 420.
Angels, demons, and souls, identity of, i. 332. Anger, remark on, i. 138. Animals fit for Sacrifice, 'Irkatise on, iii. 211.
Animals, principle of the generation of, i. 19; in general, creation of, i.
winged and terrestrial, creation of, Adam, i. 44; iv. 248; laws of Moses respecting, iii. 379, 405; the irrational, created for the sake of man, iv. 277. 335.
Annan, symbolical meaning of, »i. 80.
Antigonides, the flute-player, ready wit of, iii. 537. Antisthenes, remark of, on the virtu- ous man, iii. 512. Antonius, fragments of Philo preserv- ed by, iv. 271. Apelles, a tragic actor, his hatred ot the Jews,iv. 145; his punishment, 146. Apollo, the inventor of medicine, iv. 122; his various attributes, 120; his character assumed by Caligula, 120. Appetites, evil arising from the indul- gence of the, i. 336. Aquatic animals, creation of, i. 17; the clean and unclean, iii. 381. Arabia, retreat of Moses to, in. 12; circumcision practised in, iv. 449. Archons of Athens, ii. 398. Argo, the ship, iii. 537. Argonautic voyagers all free men, u.
537. Aristarchus, fortitude of, m. 530. Aristippus, a cynic philosopher, l. 447. Aristotle, his opinions concerning the world, iv. 23; his definition ot hap- piness, 423.. Ark, the, an emblem of the body, l. 425; iv. 348; its preparation, 340. Ark of the tabernacle described, iii. 94.., Arnon, interpreted, i. 169. Arphaxad, meaning of, n. 275. Arrogance, censure of, iii. 451.
INDEX.
467 Ascalon, pigeons why abundant there; iv. 240.
Aseneth, wife of Joseph, ii. 309.
Ashes, meaning of the sprinkling of, in purification, iii. 230.
Ashriel, the son of Manasseh, ii. 1 66.
Asser, a symbol of wealth, ii. 351.
Astronomy the queen of all the scien- ces, ii. 167.
Atalantes, island of, overwhelmed be- neath the sea, iv. 59.
Atheism, the greatest of all vices, iii. 182.
Athens, praise of, iii. 536.
Athletes, or boxers, i. 195; ii. 244, 253; iii. 530.
Audro, a Jewish elder, plundered and scourged, iv. 76.
Augustus, the emperor, his favour to the Jews, iv. 76, 167; panegyric of, 132.
Authority, the cause of good, ii. 394.
Autolycus, feast given by,iv. 13.
Babel, tower of, ii. 2.
Babylon, the sacrifice of children not practised in, ii. 434; the Jews dwelling there, iv. 161.
Bacchus, blessings conferred on man- kind by, iv. 118.
Baker, the chief, of Pharaoh, his dream, ii. 472.
Balaam, meaning of, ii. 34; an im- pious man, 68; his history, i. 183; iii. 59; his fate, ii. 278.
Balak, meaning of, ii. 14; his mes- sages to Balaam, iii. 59.
Banquets of the Greeks, two most celebrated, iv. 13; of intemperate men contrasted with those of the Therapeutae, iv. 9; full of trifling and folly, 15.
Barad, meaning of, ii. 237.
Basket op First-Fruits, Treatise on the Festival op the, iii. 291.
Baskets, the three, symbolically ex- plained, ii. 473.
Bassus, a centurion, sent to Alex- andria, iv. 83; apprehends Flaccus, 84; sends him to Italy, 87.
Bear, constellation of the, i. 54.
H H Beasts, creation of, i. 18; subjection of, to man, 25; the passions com- pared to, 83; their destruction in the deluge, iv. 349; humane treat- ment of, iii. 438, 441; which are the cause of a man's death, law regarding, iii. 339; clean and un- clean, 380.
Beauty of images, statues, and pic- tures, ii. 451.
Bees, why accounted unclean, iii. 236.
Beginning, spoken of by Moses, how to be understood, i. 7.
Belly, symbolical meaning of the, i. 138.
Belphegor, ii. 13, 259.
Benjamin, meaning of, ii. 256; an emblem of time, ii. 351.
Bethuel, meaning of, ii. 204.
Besaleel, or Bezaleel, meaning of, i. 133,421; ii. 336.
Bias of Priene, retort of, to Croesus, iii. 539.
Bible. See Septuagint.
Bilhah, or Billah, meaning of, i. 1 46.
Birds, creation of, i. 17; symbolical meaning of, ii. 139; why not divided in the sacrifices, 139.
Blasphemy, no pardon for, ii. 211; instances of its punishment, 250; iii, 114.
Blessings, promised to those who observe the Law, iii. 477.
Blind, deaf, and other afflicted per- sons, laws for the protection of, iii. 403.
Blood, the, why called the life of th* flesh, i. 261; iv. 388.
Bodleian Library, fragments of Philo preserved in the, iv. 276.
Body, the, symbolized by the ark, i. 425; seven divisions of the, i. 35; Moses' explanation of the divisions of the, i. 234.
Boethus, the Stoic, embraces the doctrine of the incorruptibility of the world, iv. 34, 41.
Boils and blains, plague of, in Egypt, iii. 29.
Bold and brave men, remark on, iv. 263. 9 468 isnr.x Bone of mv bone, explained, i. 90; | iv. 298. ' Boxers. See Athletes. Bow in the clouds, explained, iv. 393. Boys, love of, condemnation of, iii. 12. j Brazen serpent, the, i. 100. Bread from heaven, ii. 222, 289. Bread and salt, the food of the Therapeutae, iv. 9, 17. Breadth, torpor of, explained, iii. 467.; Breastplate of the high priest, de- scribed, iii. 195. Breath of the Deity, iv. 364. Breathed into, explained, i. 60; iv. 285. I Bricks, baking of, its symbolical!
meaning, ii. 21. Brutus, his attack on the Xanthians, iii. 532; the murderer of his king '< and benefactor, 532. Bum, swallowed up by the sea, iv. 58. Burning bush, miracle of the, ii. 227; iii. 16. Burnt offering. See Victims. Bush, the burning, ii. 227; iii. 16. Butler of Pharaoh, symbolical mean- ing of, ii. 376; his dream, 472.
Caddes, fountain of, ii. 234.
Cadesh, meaning of, iv. 437.
Ciesar and Pompey, war of, iv. 131.
Cain, Treatise on the Posterity of, i. 286.
Cain and Abel, Sacrifices of, i. 207.
Cain, meaning of, i. 191, 207; birth of, 185; a tiller of the ground, • 209; iv. 315; his pride, i. 217; his sacrifice, 217; his murder of his brother, 241; iv. 319; his flight, i. 283; builds a city, 294; why not mentioned as dying, ii. •200; why, though the elder, men- tioned after Abel, iv. 316; his punishment, 321, 322; omitted from the genealogy of Adam, 326.
Caius (Caligula), accession of, iv. 63; his liberality to Agrippa, 0(5; orders Flaccus to be seized, 83; puts him and other banished magistrates to death, 98; his sickness, 103; his hvpocrisv, 105; his cruelty to Macro and others, 106, 112, 113; his impiety, 116; fancies himself a god, 116; his hatred of the Jews, 124; determines to set up his statue in the holy of holies, 146; his anger at the delay of Petronius, 156; vields to the entreaties of Agrippa, 172; his inequality of temper, 173; his strange reception of the Jewisu ambassadors, 176. Caius Norbanus, letter of, concerning the Jews, iv. 168. Calanus, the Indian, his speech and letter to Alexander, iii. 527. Caleb, meaning of, ii. 262. Caligula. See Caius. Camel, the, an unclean beast, i. 404. Camels, symbolical meaning of, i. 32. Canaan, son of Noah, evil conduct of, i. 95; meaning of the name, i. 510; iv. 395; why accursed, i. 510. Canaan, land of, * the emblem of wickedness, ii. 174; promised to Abraham, iv. 447. Canaanites, defeat of, by the Hebrews, iii. 57; sometimes called Cappa- docians, iv. 278. Candlestick, the sacred, symbolical meaning of its trunk and branches, ii. 136; an imitation of the seven planets, 137. Capito, the collector of the imperial revenues in Judaea, his false charges against the Jews, iv. 144. Cappadocians, the Canaanites so called, iv. 278. Captives, female, humane directions regarding, iii. 438. Carabbas, a madman, his mock coro- nation at Alexandria, iv. 68. Carbuncle and emerald, symbolically explained, i. 69. Carcases and bodies torn by wild beasts, law of Moses regarding, iii. 304. • Carthage, its fall, i. 376. Cast out and sent out, the difference explained, i. 175. Castor and Pollux, iv. 118. Categories, the, ten only in number, iii. 142.
INDEX.
469 Cattle and beasts, creation of, i. 1 8.
Caution, likened to a wall, ii. 3.59.
Cenchreas, the dockyard of Corinth, iv. 93.
Centurions appointed by Moses, ii. 179.
Ceos, isle of, peopled by Japhet, iv. 404.
Chaldaeans, the sacrifice of children not practised among the, ii. 434; their skill in astronomy and gene- 1 alogies, 82; land of the, symboli- cally explained, iv. 406.
Chameleon, its wonderful property, i. 488.
Changes of countries and nations, enumeration of, i. 376.
Chaos, opinions of Aristotle and others concerning, iv. 25.
Character impressed on man, meaning of, i. 133.
Chariot of the soul, i. 393; of Cleo- patra, iv. 129.
Charran, ii. 82; its meaning, 85; a metropolis of the outward senses, ii. 301.
Chatterers, censure of; iv. 246.
Chebron, meaning of, i. 245, 299.
Chemosh, meaning of, i. 169.
Cherubim, On the, i. 175.
Cherubim, what to be understood by the, i. 181;iv. 314.
Chest, the seat of courage, i. 138.
Cheth, meaning of, ii. 360.
Cheturah, meaning of, i. 215.
Children, ignorant people so termed by Moses, i. 503; sacrifice of, among heathen nations, ii. 433; power of life and death over, given to parents by the law of Moses, iii. 296; hap- piness of the parents of virtuous, iv. 275.
Chiliarchs appointed by Moses, ii. 179.
Chaereas, an Alexandrian, freedom of speech of, iii. 533.
Choruses, male and female, of the | Therapeutse, iv. 19; an imitation of those led by Moses and Miriam, 20.
Chrvsippus, paradoxes of, iv. 40, 45, 46.
Chus, the eldest son of Ham, iv. 405.
Cidaris of the high priest, iii. 97.
Circumcision, Treatise on, iii. 175.
Circumcision, rite of, practised by the Egyptians and other nations, iii. 1 75; iv. 449; its advantages, iii. 176; of what things a symbol, 176; when ordained, iv. 448; why to be per- formed on the eighth day, 452; neglect of, who punishable for, 277, 455; of the heart, 239.
Cities, two species of, ii. 23.
Cities, Levitical, i. 238.
Cities of refuge, ii. 212; reasons for their numrfer and situation, 212; why chosen from the Levitical ci- ties, 213; why the refugees might return on the death of the high priest, 216.
Cities and houses, symbolical mean- ing of, i. 362.
City built by Cain, meaning of, i. 297.
Cleanthes, his opinion on the confla- gration of the world, iv. 45.
Clean and unclean animals, iii. 380.
Cleopatra, chariot of. iv. 129.
Clothing, symbolical meaning of, ii. 313.
Command, recommendation, distin- guished, i. 76.
Commandments, On the Ten, iii. 136.
Commandments, the ten, summary of, ii. 126.
Concealment from God, symbolically explained, i. 108.
Concubinage, iii. 321.
Concubines and wives, ii. 1 62.
Conflagrations and regenerations of the world, the Stoic opinion of successive, combated, iv. 32.
Confusion of Languages, On the, ii. 1.
Conscience, an incorruptible and un- erring judge, iv. 243.
Conscience, power of, remark on, iv. 265.
Contemplative Life, Treatise on ▲, iv. 1.
Contentiousness and disobedience, i. 456.
Contentment, remarks on, iv. 265.
Contests at the public games, their 470 INDEX.
worthless character, i. 401; the I Olympian contest only esteemed | sacred, 402; drinking contests, 448. j Cook. See Baker. Corn, Pharaoh's vision of the ear ot, ii. 474. Corruption of all flesh, iv. 337. Courage, On, iii. 412. Courage and boldness discriminated, i". 412...Covenant, Isaac's, with Abimelech, iv.
278. Covetousness, the commandment against, iii. 167, 173, 373. Cowardly and wavering people, re- ( marks on, iv. 261. Cowards, reasons for exempting from j military service, iii, 417. Creation op the World, as be- j SCRIBED BY MOSES, TREATISE ON, i. 1.
Creation of animals, iv. 293.
Creation of the world, questions con- cerning the, iv. 284.
Creeping things given for food, iv. 387.
Critolaus, his arguments for the eter- nitv of the world, iv. 27, 32.
Crocodile, the, honoured in some parts of Egvpt, but injured in others, iv. 3, 240.!
Croesus, king of Lydia, his fall, n. 480. j Cultivation of the earth, iv. 395. • Curses, On, iii. 485.
Curse pronounced on the serpent, iv., 307; on the woman, 308; on the j man, 309.!
Curses against those who violate the j Law, iii. 435.
Custom, a singular, of some cities,i. 275.
Custom and familiarity, remark on, iv. 277.
Customs, observance of, i. 463.
Cvclops, country of the, iv. 240.
Damage, law concerning, iii. 360. Damascus, meaning of, ii. 104. Damocles, storv of, iv. 229. Dan, meaning of, i. 397; how likened to a serpent, 103; a symbol ot division, ii. 351.
Dardanian women, their disdain of slavery, iii. 531. Darkness, plague of, in Egypt, iii. 28. Daughters, metaphorically used for arts and sciences, i. 192. Daughters of men, what meant by, i.
330. Daughters of Midian, symbolical mean- ing of, ii. 260. Death, two kinds of, i. 79; in what cases inflicted by the laws of Moses, iii. 298, 300. Death, shadow of, symbolical mean- ing of, ii. 152. Debtors, the law respecting, symboli- cally explained, ii. 312. 1 Debtors and creditors, proper conduct of, iii. 432. Decade, the all-perfect, the number 4 its origin, i. 12; excellent things attributed to, by Moses, ii. 175; properties of the, iii. 140. Decalogue. See Commandments. Deceits, what kind of, allowable, iv.
244. Delos, island of, said to have risen from the sea, iv. 53. Deluge, the great, an image of sin, ii. 6; described, 404; iii. 85; iv. 353; its cessation, iv. 376. Demeter, iv. 2. Demetra, name given to the earth, and why, i. 39. Democracy, a well-ordered, the best of all constitutions, iii. 455. Democritus, inconsiderate conduct of, iv. 4; his opinions regarding the in- corruptibility of the world, 23. Deposits, law concerning, iii. 362. ; Desire of the wicked, iv. 318. Deucalion. See Noah. j Dialectics, ii. 161. Diapason, the, i. 13. i Diatessaron, i. 13.
j Diaulos, a foot-race among the Grec1/ s, i. 30; iii- 376. Dibon, meaning of, i. 169. Dic?oarchia, a port for vessels for Alexandria, iv. 66. ' | Dinah, meaning of, ii. 93. Diogenes, the Cynic, i. 447; his INDEX.
471 opinions concerning the incorrupt- ibility of the world, iv. 34; his ready wit and courage, iii. 532.
Dionysius, an Alexandrian dema- gogue, iv. 65.
Dionvsius of Sicily, his apprehensions for his life, iv. 228; his fall, ii. 480.
Dioscuri, legend of the, iii. 148.
Diseases threatened to the disobedient, iii. 489, 491.
Disobedience and contentiousness, i. 456.
Disorders at banquets, iv. 9, 11, 12.
Distinctness, praise of, iv. 262.
Dividing rightly, what, iv. 317.
Divine voice, considerations on the, iii. 143.
Divination and augury, why forbidden, iii 189.
Division of the victims, symbolical meaning of, ii. 119; the birds not divided, and why, 139.
Dog, the name of, a homonymy, i. 446; dissimilar things indicated by the name, 446; styled the most audacious of beasts, iii. 162.
Dognies. See Flies.
Dotham, meaning of, i. 248; ii. 220.
Dove, the, sent forth by Noah, iv. 370.
Dove '8 neck, changes of colour of the, i. 489.
Dragon, judgment likened to the, i. 397.
Dreams sent from God, On the Doctrine of, ii. 292.
Dream, Jacob's, explained, ii. 320.
Dreams of waking as well as sleeping persons, ii. 478; all things relating to the body dreams, 479.
Dross of the high priest described, iii. 96; its symbolical meaning, 98.
Drinking contests, i. 448.
Drunkenness, considerations on, i. 444; censure of, ii. 376.
Drusilla, sister of Claudius, her death, iv. 73.
" Dust shalt thou eat," symbolical meaning of, i. 149.
Earth, its early production of fruit and herbs explained, i. 12; why no longer spontaneously productive,. 50; filled with iniquity, iv. 338; cultivation of the, 395; motion of the, ii. 21.
East, symbolical meaning of, ii. 14.
Eating of the trees of Paradise ex- plained, i. 77.
Eclipses considered as prophetic of events on earth, iv. 236.
Eden, meaning of, i. 1. See Para- dise.
Edict of Caius Norbanus Flaccus in favour of the Jews, iv. 168.
Edom, the earthly, its opposition to godliness, i. 375, 377.
Education typified by Hagar, ii. 161; the suitable employment of both youth and age, iii. 509.
Egypt, symbolical meaning of, ii. 76. iv. 423; reduced from a sovereign to a slave, ii. 480; folly of a pre- fect of, ii. 366; persecution of the Jews in, iv. 69, 125; king of, his six hundred chariots, symbolical meaning of, i. 476; river of, ii. 157..
Egyptian midwives, the, symbolical meaning of, ii. 1 1 8.
Egyptians, destruction of the,- sym- bolical meaning of, ii. 392; their impiety, iii. 114; their ridiculous idolatry, 154; iv. 2; overthrow of, in the Red Sea, iii. 41; their haughty and boastful character, i. 391; yet not to be cursed, iii. 436.
Eight, the number, its properties, i. 29; iv. 452.
Eighty, the number, its composition, iv. 438.
Elders, who so called by Moses, i. 504; who so regarded among the Therapeutae, iv. 15.
Eleazar of Damascus, ii. 105.
Eleazar, son of Moses, ii. 105.
Elements, the -four, i. 440; the uni- verse made from, 14; further con- siderations on, ii. 295.
Eliezer. See Eleazar.
Eliphah, the son of Esau, ii. 168.
Emerald svmbolicallv explained, i. 69.
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Encyclical instruction, ii. 172. Enemies, directions for the treatment of, iii. 439, 447. Enoch, meaning of, i. 294; oracle respecting him, ii. 244; his transla- tion, 399; iv. 329. Enoch, son of Cain, and Enoch, son of Seth, i. 295. Enos, meaning of, i. 276: ii. 398; iii.
459; iv. 326. Envy, remark on, iv. 268; defeated by time, iv. 274. Ephemereutae, or elders, among the Therapeutae, iv. 15. Ephraim, blessing of, by Jacob, i.
131. Ephron, meaning of, ii. 17. Epicure, censure of the, ii. 353. Epicurus, his opinions concerning the world, iv. 23. Epistritus, its ratio, i. 13. Equal parts into which the sacrifices were to be divided, symbolical meaning of, ii. 121. Equality, remark on, iv. 264. Equality and inequality, iii. 411. Er, meaning of, i. 121; wickedness of, 121. Erroneous judgments, sources of, i.
490. Esau, meaning of, ii. 169; his wick- edness, i. 107; his skill in hunting injurious to himself, ii. 144; con- duct of, iv. 279. Eschol, symbolical meaning of, ii. 79. Essenes, account of the, iii. 523; iv.
219. Eternity properly means "to-day," ii. 206. Ethiopia, interpretation of the name, i. 69. Ethiopian woman, the, symbolically explained, i. 96. Eunuch, figurative meaning of, ii. 466. Euodius, a Jewish elder, plundered and scourged, iv. 76. Euphrates, a river of Paradise, sym- bolically explained, i. 70; ii. 157; iv. 291, 423. Euphrates, the river, a boundary of the Roman empire, iv. 102, 291.