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Annotatio XIX — Genesis 1:26

“Let us make man to [our] image," etc.”

Annotatio XIX

”Let us make man to [our] image,” etc. — Genesis 1:26

Philo, in the book On the Fashioning of the Six Days, on that “Let us make man to the image,” etc., asserts that the stars are intelligent living beings.1 See below, Annotation 108.

Footnotes

  1. Left margin: Whether the stars are animate. (An stellae sint animata.) ↩