...his work on Noah, Philo again expresses the teaching that man is made by "the First Cause" (that is, God) in the image of "the Eternal Word:" "Our great Moses likened the fashion of the rea- sonable soul to no created thing, but averred it to be a genuine coinage of that dread Spirit, the Divine and Invisible One, signed and impressed by the seal of God, the stamp of which is the Eternal Word...