Encyclopedic Dictionary of Bible and Theology

Philo The Dialectician SEE PHILO THE MEGARIAN. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Philo Senior Josephus (Apion, 1:23), when enumerating the heathen writers who had treated of Jewish history, mentions together Demetrius Phalerens. Philo, and Eupolemon. Philo he calls the elder (), probably to distinguish him from Philo Judaeus, and he cannot mean Herennius Philo, who lived after his time. Clemens Alexandrinus (Stromat. 1:146) also couples together the … Continue reading “Philo Senior”

Philo Of Tarsus a deacon. He was a companion of Ignatius of Antioch, and accompanied the martyr from the East to Rome, A.D. 107. He is twice mentioned in the epistles of Ignatius (Ad Philadelph. c. 11; Ad Smynaeos, c. 13). He is supposed to have written, along with Rheus Agathopus, the Martyrium Ignatii, for … Continue reading “Philo Of Tarsus”

Philo Of Larissa an academic philosopher of Athens, flourished in the century preceding the Christian sera. He quitted the Greek capital on the success of the army of Mithridates, and went to Rome, where he had Cicero for a disciple. He gained renown by his services to philosophic science. He furnished a more complete and … Continue reading “Philo Of Larissa”

Philo of Alexandria (30 B.C.- 50 A.D.) Jewish theologian and Neo-Platonic philosopher. He held that Greek thought borrowed largely from Mosaic teachings and therefore justified his use of Greek philosophy for the purpose of interpreting Scripture in a spiritual sense. For Philo, the renunciation of self and, through the divine Logos in all men, the … Continue reading “Philo of Alexandria”

Philo, Judaeus flo, joo-deus: 1.His Life 2.Importance of the Period 3.The Task of Philo 4.Changes and New Problems 5.Three Subjects of Inquiry (1)The Conception of God (2)God’s Relation to the World (3)Doctrine of Man 6.Philo’s Works LITERATURE 1. His Life: Born probably in the first decade of Augustus Caesar, who became emperor in 27 BC. … Continue reading “Philo, Judaeus”

Philo Jud#230;us Born about 25 B.C.. His family, of a sacerdotal line, was one of the most powerful of the populous Jewish colony of Alexandria. His brother Alexander Lysimachus was steward to Anthony’s second daughter, and married one of his sons to the daughter of Herod Agrippa, whom he had put under financial obligations. Alexander’s … Continue reading “Philo Jud#230;us”

Philo, deacon Philo (2), deacon. Among the proofs of the genuineness of the Ignatian letters [IGNATIUS] is the fact that we obtain a thoroughly consistent story on piecing together scattered notices about obscure persons. Thus two deacons are mentioned, Philo from Cilicia and Rheius Agathopus from Syria (Philadelph. ii., Smyrn. 10, 13). We find that … Continue reading “Philo, deacon”

Philo Carpathius (from Carpathus, an island north-east of Crete), or, rather, CARPASIUS (from Carpasia, a town in the north of Cyprus), an Eastern ecclesiastic, flourished about the opening of the 5th century. His birthplace is unknown, but he derived this cognomen from his having been ordained bishop of Carpasia by Epiphanius, the well-known bishop of … Continue reading “Philo Carpathius”

Philo Philo of Alexandria, the Jew, a contemporary of the apostles, was so highly esteemed by early Christian theologians as to be counted among the Christian authors (Jerome, de Vir. Ill. 11), and his significance for the Apostolic Age is no less clearly recognized by modern scholars. 1. Life.-About the life of Philo we have … Continue reading “Philo”