The influence of Plato’s image of God as a rational Creator knowable through our reason would be immense, and not only in ancient Greek thought. It would shape the whole notion of God in early Christianity. In fact, the word Plato uses for his ordered creation, genesis, will become the title of the first book of the Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible. In time, early Christian and medieval commentators will carefully stitch together Plato’s version of creation and Moses’s into a harmonious whole, so that spiritual-theological and rational-scientific elements of both the Old Testament and the
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