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Made in the image of God — LXX, Philo, Origen

Connection type: parallel tradition · 3 passages

The Septuagint's 'according to the image of God' is taken up by Philo, for whom man was made in the image of God, and by Origen, who reads 'the image of the invisible God' as a statement about the nature of God himself.

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“καὶ ἐποίησεν ὁ θεὸς τὸν ἄνθρωπον, κατ᾽ εἰκόνα θεοῦ ἐποίησεν αὐτόν· ἄρσεν καὶ θῆλυ ἐποίησεν αὐτούς.”

Septuagint (Swete), Genesis 1:27 · Genesis 1:27

“this is the doctrine of Moses, not mine. Accordingly he, when recording the creation of man, in words which follow, asserts expressly, that he was made in the image of God—and if the image be a part of the image, then manifestly so is the entire form, namely, the whole of this world perceptible by the external senses, which is a greater imitation of the divine image than the human form is. It is manifest also, that the archetypal seal, which we call that world which is perceptible only to the intellect, must itself be the archetypal model, the idea of ideas, the Reason of God.”

Philo of Alexandria — On the Creation of the World · Sections 1–25

“See, therefore, if the apostle does not say the same thing, when, speaking of Christ, he declares, that He is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of every creature.”

Origen — De Principiis (On First Principles) · Chapter 1. On God.

Every passage above is quoted verbatim from the library’s own corpus file for that work (Septuagint passages from the Swete text); long passages are shown as sentences or marked excerpts, never paraphrased. The connection type is descriptive: “direct quotation” means the later text names or quotes its source; “allusion” means it names the figure or scene; “parallel tradition” means the texts retell the same episode or wording, with no dependence claimed.

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Creation & cosmology, Christology & the Trinity

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