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mandag den 28. juni 2021

Dilon on Philo and Wolfson about ineffability

 "The fact that Philo of Alexandria is the first surviving author actually to describe God as arrhetos (e.g. Somn. I. 67, where God is described as not only arrhetos, but 'unnameable' and 'utterly incomprehensible') is interesting, but cannot, I think, confer on Philo the importance which Wolfson (1952) would claim for him." (John Dilon, Alcinous: The Handbook of Platonism, p. 101)