ABSTRACT
Divine Logos introduces in Philo. The Jewish theologian and philosopher Philo of Alexandria is a unique figure in what remains to us of the philosophy of the late Hellenistic philosophy and early Imperial period. Philo conceives these characteristics of divine speech in a relation of eminence over characteristics of human speech. Philo seems to be illustrating theological claims on the basis of observing human nature in this particular discussion, at other times human speech is explained in light of divine speech. Philo tends to develop his remarks on human speech in analogy to his account of the divine creation of the sensible world. Human speech is an imitation of divine creative activity, bringing order out of disorder. It presents the creative mixture of Stoic and Platonic strands in his theory of language. The relationship of immateriality and materiality in Philo's concept of our logos is crucial to his philosophy of language.
