17t1SSERTATION IV. 293 III. The term " Logos" is used frequently by Philo for a glorious angel, vastly superior to all other angels, whom he calls the most honourable " Logos," the archangel, prince of angels and stars ; and as the Jews, and scriptures, call all angels Sons of God ; so this "Logos," this archangel, according to Philo, is the first-born of all his Sons. In his Treatise of the Confusion of Tongues, he persuades men to endeavour to be adorned like the first-born word of God, the most ancient angel, the archangel who has many names, who is called the beginning, apxs,, the name of God; the Word of God; the man after God's image ; and the seer of Israel." And he adds, Wherefore I commend those who had said, that we are all sons of one man, Eros ,,,Ofwaa, for though we are not worthy to be called the children.of God, yet we are the children of his most holyword, his male, everlasting image; for the most ancient word is the image of God." In another place, a little before this, where he is persuading mankind to peace, he says, " How comes it to pass that ye do not hate war, since ye profess to have the same Father, not mortal but immortal, even ar9fav011 Ow or vu ashu Toy& ar, a man of God, who being the word of the Eternal, must himself also be incorruptible." Again, " from a companion of Moses, that is, Zachary a fellow-prophet, we have heard this saying, behold a man whose name is * THE EAST, 'Avalon,. This is a new sort of appella- tion, if we understand it of a man who consists of a body and a soul ; but if it be understood of that incorporeal manf., who differs not from the divine image, you will confess that it is a most happy name for him : For the Father of beings caused this his most ancient Son to rise, arE1ElxE, whom otherwise he calls his first-born ; who being born did immediately imitate his Father's ways : for seeing his archetypal exemplars, lie did form copies exactly like 'them. This Philo speaks when he cites Zech. vi. 12. behold the man whose name is, Analoxe, the east, or the branch ; ' De confusione linguarum.' And these words bear a very near affinity to the words of our Saviour him- self, John v. 19. The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what, things soccer he doth, these also doth the Son likewise. In his book, de migratione Abrahami, he says, that" God, who is the mind of the universe, o oar ras OXNY, has his " Logos," for his house.What house can he have but his word, who is * The branch; Zecb. vi. 12. is rendered avaloXn by the LXX. which signifies also the East. Now that Philo seems to mean a man bere, or a human_soul, may be be proved i because he speaks of him in direct opposition to a worse sort of mae, whomhe also calls ava1oa+,, or the East, becausehe lived in the Esst : This was Balak, who, saith Philo, bath a name like the former, but it is very differ- ent in reality. Tú
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