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A. Philo
A. Philo, who dies after A.D. 40, is mainly important for the light he throws on certain
modes of thought and phraseology found again in some of the Apostles. Eusebius (Hist.
Eccl., II, iv) indeed preserves a legend that Philo had met St. Peter in Rome during his
mission to the Emperor Caius; moreover, that in his work on the contemplative life he
describes the life of the Christian Church in Alexandria founded by St. Mark, rather than
that of the Essenes and Therapeutae. But it is hardly probable that Philo had heard enough
of Christ and His followers to give an historical foundation to the foregoing legends.
