De Plantatione

Philo Judaeus

The works of Philo Judaeus, the contemporary of Josephus, volume 1. Yonge, C. D., translator. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1854.

Such now is the fruit of education; being for three years, that is to say for all time, divided as it is into three portions, most completely pure and brilliant, being overshadowed by no injurious thing, and having no need whatever of any [*](Leviticus xix. 23. )

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washings or purifications, or any thing else whatever which tends to cleansing.

"But in the fourth year," says the scripture, "all the fruit of the tree shall be sacred, being praised by the Lord." [*](Leviticus xix. 25. ) The prophetic books appear often to dignify the number four in many places of the exposition of the law, and most especially in the account of the creation of the universe;