Philonis Judaei Paralipomena Armena

for everyone who has been in one place in the community of love is able to utter the Pythagorean saying: "A friend is another self."

Why, when he had said beforehand that "one shall make a helper for man," does he create beasts and cattle?

XVIII. Because the gluttonous and the insatiable by the belly might say that beasts and birds are for the sake of the human as necessary food for assistance; for the cooperation of the belly works toward health and the strength of the body. But I think that now for man, because of the evil that is in him, the land-animals and birds are enemies and war against him. But for the first man, who was adorned in all things with virtue, they were not combatants and supporters, but friends, tame by nature in their hand. And this was the only reason for their familiarity, as it was fitting for servants to be before a prince.

Why are the beasts and birds created again now, since their creation had already been announced in the six days?

XIX. Now, perhaps those which were in the six days were incorporeal (Angels), and were types of the beasts and birds shown as an example. But now, they are fulfilled by deed, as likenesses of them, sensible things of the invisible ones.

Locus used by our Chorenensis, Lib. 1, cap. 31, near the end, with some difference. "I now speak more boldly of the Pythagorean (notion): and is there anything else for a lover than oneself? For there is none." Where he omits what the Interpreters of Choren converted to another sense. It seems for "Pythagorean" one should read or understand "Platonic" even in Choren; for also in the Polyanth. of Lange, under the word Friendship, it is held thus: "Pythagoras says, that friendship is equality, and the same soul: as a friend, another self."