Philonis Judaei Opera Omnia (Vol. 8)

Therefore, he first demonstrates divine providence and care against them, as one skilled in the divine law, which he also calls the dominical scripture the Lord's writing. He philosophizes about these things with Alexander, a student and investigator of doctrine, and his kinsman Lysimachus, whom he also calls his brother; and he persuades both that all things which exist are subject to providence *) Since the two following discourses are inscribed to Alexander, but the third looks both to him and to Lysimachus, our interpreter rightly judges that the third discourse, dealing with animals, also pertains to the treatise on providence: for which reason we also thought those three discourses should be brought into one volume. Auch..