Note 113 — Chapter II
Neil Buchanan translation
Footnote 113:
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"So far as the sensible world is a work of the Logos, it is called νεωτερος 'υιος (quod deus immut. 6. I.277), or according to Prov. VIII. 22, an offspring of God and wisdom: 'η δε παραδεξαμηνε το του θεου σπερμα τελεσφοροις ωδισι τον μονον και αγαπητον αισθητον 'υιον απεκυησε τον δε τον κοσμον (de ebriet 8 I. 361 f). So far as the Logos is High Priest his relation to the world is symbolically expressed by the garment of the High Priest, to which exegesis the play on the word κοσμος, as meaning both ornament and world, lent its aid." This speculation (see Siegfried. Philo, 235) is of special importance; for it shews how closely the ideas κοσμος and λογος were connected.