Excerpt from Philo's Contribution to Religion The Fathers of the Church availed them selves of Philo's method for their own pur poses. The Old Testament had already proved one of the most powerful instruments in the Christian mission. It had to a large extent provided the new faith with a religious vocabulary. It formed the background of those conceptions which, in writings like the Epistles of St. Paul and the Fourth Gospel, created the basis of a Christian theology. The religious experience it recorded was truly felt to be consummated in Jesus Christ. But the inevitable controversy with Judaism demanded something more. For the cham pions of the older religion also found their weapons in the sacred' book. From the beginning, the early Church had searched the Old Testament for anticipations of its fundamental truths. By the use of Philo's principles of interpretation, it became possible to demonstrate that from Genesis to Malachi, through history and ceremonial, the scrip tures had exclusive reference to the good things to come. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.