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“Let us make man to [our] image," etc.”
Philo, in the book On the Fashioning of the Six Days, on that “Let us make man to the image,” etc., asserts that the stars are intelligent living beings.1 See below, Annotation 108.
Left margin: Whether the stars are animate. (An stellae sint animata.) ↩
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Sixtus of Siena, O.P., “Annotation XIX, Whether the stars are animate (Genesis 1:26),” in Annotations on the Old Testament, English translation, Mind of the Church, https://mindofthechurch.com/works/bibliotheca-sancta/020-annotation-xix-whether-the-stars-are-animate-genesis-1-26/.
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