were mostly written when Jesus was a child and a youth, and that he never once mentions Jesus or Christianity. It must not be forgotten that Philo lived in Alexandria, not in Judæa, and that between the Canaanitish and the Hellenic Jews there existed the most bitter hostility, so that--even were the story of Jesus true--it could not have reached Philo before A.D. 40, at which time he was old and gray-headed. We again quote from Mr. Lake's treatise, who prints the parallel passages, and we would draw special attention to the similarity of phraseology as well as of idea: _Identity of the Christ of the New Testament with the Logos of Philo._ Philo, describing the Logos, The New Testament, speaking says:-- of Jesus says:-- 'The Logos is the Son 'This is the Son of God.' of God the Father.'--De John i. 34. Profugis. 'The first begotten of God.' 'And when he again bringeth --De Somniis. his first-born into the world.'--Heb. i. 6. 'And the most ancient of 'That he is the first-born all beings.'--De Conf. Ling. of every creature.'--Col. i. 15. 'The Logos is the image 'Christ, the image of the and likeness of God.'--De invisible God.'--Col. i. 15. Monarch. 'The brightness of his (God's) glory, and the express image of his person.'--Heb. i. 3. 'The Logos is superior to 'Being made so much the angels.'--De Profugis. better that the angels. Let all the angels of God worship him.'--Heb. i. 4, 6. 'The Logos is superior to 'Thou hast put all things all beings in the world.'--De in subjection under his feet.' Leg. Allegor. --Heb. ii. 8. 'The Logos is the instrument 'All things were made by by whom the world was him (the Word or Logos), made.'--De Leg. Allegor. and without him was not anything made that was 'The divine word by whom made.'--John i. 3 all things were ordered and disposed.'--De Mundi Opificio. 'Jesus Christ, by whom are all things.'--i Cor. viii. 6. 'By whom also he made the worlds.'--Heb. i. 2. 'The Logos is the light of 'The Word (Logos) was the world, and the intellectual the true light.'--John i. 9. sun.'--De Somniis. 'The life and the light of men.'--John i. 4. 'I am the light of the world.' --John viii. 12.