The Apostolic Age · c. AD 30–45
On Abraham
De Abrahamo
Philo of Alexandria · c. 20 BC – c. AD 50
What it is
Abraham presented to a Greek readership as a living law — a man who kept the Torah before it was given, because he had read it off the order of the world.
Why it lasted
The argument that the patriarchs were law incarnate before Sinai, which Paul's readers and Paul's opponents both had in their ears.
Scripture it works from
Where to read it
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