MEANING AND HISTORY OF THE LOGOS OF PHILOSOPHY. 263 
Imitating the ways of his Father, he formed such and such 
species, looking to his archetypal patterns.* His titles in- 
clude also Mediator,t Advocate,} and High Priest ;$ and he 
is ever the Supphant|| to the Immortal on behalf of the 
mortal creation, the Ruler’s Ambassador to the subject people. 
Such is the language of a thinker who was evidently very 
much in earnest, but quite unconscious of the real import of 
those words and phrases in which he was anticipating a 
revelation of truths that were far beyond the range of his 
speculations. If it be accounted prophetic, and [ see no 
reason why it should not, it may remind us of the saying of a 
certain high priest who, in expressing his opinion that it was 
expedient that one man should die for the people, uttered, as 
we are well assured, a prophecy,{] but unquestionably was far 
from being aware of the true drift and bearing of his words. 
That Philo, however strikingly his language may have touched 
the truth at certain points, knew not what he was saying, 1s 
made apparent by a passage in which, after representing the 
Divine Word as delighting in and priding himself upon the 
work of mediation which has been assigned to him, he puts 
into his mouth the following remarkable words:** ‘* And I 
stood between the Lord and you, being neither unoriginated 
as God, nor yet originated as you are, but midway between 
the two extremes, as hostage to both; to the Progenitor, for 
security that the race shall never wholly fall away and revolt, 
having chosen disorder instead of order; to the offspring, for 
a warranty of hope that the merciful God will never overlook 
his own work. For I am about to proclaim the conditions of 
peace from God, who has decreed to put an end to wars, 
being ever the guardian of peace.” 
In this philosophy the Mediator finds his place and occupa- 
tion in a chasm over which no human mind can pass; and 
thus, although his functions render possible communication 
between God and man, his person separates the one from the 
other, and cannot properly be designated by either title. He 
is not God and man, he is neither God nor man. The truth © 
is, the Philonic Logos is the personification, or quasi personifi- 
cation, of the sum-total of the purely intelligible under a 
* De Confus. Ling., 14. Compare John vy. 19. 
+ Quest. in Ex., 11.68: “Dei Verbum... mediator,’ etc. 
{ De Vit. Mos., iii. 14: zapaxdyroc. 
§ De Gigant., 11: apxuepedc. 
|| Quis Rer. div. heer., 42 : twérne. 
@ John xi. 49-52. 
** Quis Rer. div. her., 42. 
