The attempts made by Grossmann, Gfroerer, and others, to explain the origin of Christianity as an offshoot of the Jewish philosophy of Alexan dria, rest mainly on these occasional coincidences of language, while overlooking fundamental diffe rences of doctrine. The ideal Logos, the distin guishing feature of the Alexandrian philosophy, has no place in the teaching of the New Testament. The belief in one Christ, very God and very man, has not only no place in, but is diametrically opposed to, the philosophical speculations of Philo. But Chris tianity came into the world at a time when the Grxco-Jewish modes of thought, of which Philo is the representative, were prevalent ; and the earliest Christian teachers, so far as they had to deal with those to whom that philosophy was familiar, could do so most effectually by means of its language and associations. These considerations seem natu rally to explain the resemblance and the difference between the two systems—resemblance as regards the language employed ; difference as regards the doctrine which that language conveys.
The following works may be mentioned, as treating, from one side or the other, the subject discussed in the preceding article :—Gfroerer, Philo zena'dieyiidisch-AlexandrizzischeTheosophie;Dahne, Geschichlliche Darstelluzvg der 7iidisch-Alexandrin ischen Religions-Philosophie ; Grossmann, Quosti ones Philoneze ; Dicke, in Studien and 1831, p. 912, 1833, p. 532 ; Conznzentar liter dos
Evangelizinz des Johannes, vol. i. p. nos, seq., ed. 1833 ; Keferstein, Philo's Lehre von dear Gottlichen Alittetwesen ; Tholuck, Commentary on the Gospel of St. Yohn, p. 57, seq., Eng. tr. ; J. G. Muller, art. Philo,' in Herzog's Real-Encykloplidie ; corn pare also the Introduction to Neander's Church History, vol. i. p. 6S, seq., Eng. tr. ; Dorner, On the Person of Christ, p. 13, seq., Eng. tr. ; and Pro fessor Jowett's Essay on St. Paul and Philo, in the first volume of his Commentary on the Epistles. The subject is also illustrated in the preface to Mangey's edition of Philo, p. ix., seq. ; in Brucker's Historia Critzca Philosophize, vol. ii., p. 797, seq. ; in Cudworth's Intellectual System of the Universe, and in the notes of his translator Mosheim ; in Cwsar Morgan's Investigation of the Trinity of Plato and of Philo ,,,a'aus; in Martin's Etudes sur le Time; in Professor Burton's Bampton Lectures ; in Mat ter's Histoire de l'Ecole d'Alexandrie and Histoire Critique du Gnosticisme ; in Vacherot's Histoire Critique de l'Ecole d'Alexandrie.—II. L. NI.