Vulgar words in Philo-Judaeus of Alexandria (Page 1)
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Unfortunately, the Hellenism that was brought to Palestine was not the lofty culture, the eager search for truth and knowledge, that marked Athens in the classical age; it was a bastard product of Greek elegance and Oriental luxury and sensuousness, a seeking after base pleasures, an assertion of naturalistic polytheism.
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The Jews worshipped the head of an ass,[73] they hated the Gentiles, and would have no communication with them, they killed Gentile children at the Passover, and their law allowed them to commit any offences against all but their own people, and inculcated a low morality.
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With the enthusiasm of a Maccabee, if with other weapons, he fought against the bastard culture, which meant self-indulgence and the excessive attention to the body, the idol-worship, the degraded ideas of the Divine power, and the disregard of truth and justice, that were current in the pagan society about him.
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His philosophical commentary on the creation, corresponding to the [Hebrew: m'sha br'shit] of the rabbis, is found in the book _De Mundi Opificio_, which stands in modern editions at the head of his writings.
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So Passover is the festival of the spring and a memorial of the creation ([Hebrew: zbr lm'sha br'shit]) as well as the memorial of the great Exodus, and of our gratitude for the deliverance from the inhospitable land of Egypt.
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The more serious metaphysical and theological speculation of the rabbis was embodied in the doctrine of the "Creation," and the "Chariot," [Hebrew: m'sha br'shit] and [Hebrew: m'sha mrkba], which in form were commentaries on the early chapters of Genesis and the visions of Ezekiel.
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It probably embraced the [Hebrew: m'sha br'shit] and the [Hebrew: m'sha mrkba], though we know not what these exactly contained.
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Only when it became hardened into dogma, fixed not only as good doctrine, but as the only saving doctrine, as the tree of life opposed to the Torah, the tree of death--only then did it become anti-Jewish, and appear as a bastard offspring of the Hebraic God-idea and Greek culture.