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70 ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. ecclesiastical services committed to them, those of the deacons and the presidencies of the episcopate as the highest But, whosoever desires to have a more accurate knowledge of these things, may learn them from the history already cited; but that Philo, when he wrote these statements, had in view|£he first he ralds of the gospel, and the original practices handed down from the apostles, must be obvious to all!) CHAPTER XVIII. The books of Philo that have come down to us. THIS author, who was copious in language, comprehensive in thought, sublime and elevated in his views of the sacred Scrip tures, has made his exposition of the sacred books equally dis tinguished for variety of matter and manner. On the one hand he expounds the history of Genesis, in the books that he calls " Allegories of the Divine Laws," following the order of the book ; and on the other, he forms particular divisions of the chapters, according to the subject of the Scriptures, with the objections and solutions; in which same books also he prefixes the tables of the questions and solutions both in Genesis and Exodus respectively There are also, besides these, treatises on certain problems par ticularly discussed, such as two " On Agriculture," and two " On Drunkenness," and some others distinguished by a different and peculiar title. Such as " On the things that a Sober Mind earn estly desires, and those which it execrates ;" also, " On the Confu sion of Tongues," and the treatise " On Flight and Discovery," and that "On Literary Convention," and "On the question, 'Who is Heir to things Divine? " or, " On the Division of Things into equal and unequal." Moreover, the treatise on the three virtues, which Moses records with others. Beside these, there is one " On those whose Names are changed, and wherefore their Names have been changed ;" in which he says, that he wrote also on the first and second covenant. There is also a work of the same author, "On Emigration, and on the Life of the Wise Man perfect in Righteous