Maryanne Cline Horowitz, Seeds of Virtue and Knowledge, ACLS Humanities E-Book, Princeton University Press, 1998, p. 49, ISBN 9780691044637.
«The Stoic phrase seminales rationes, 'seminal reasons,' passes into Christian vocabulary in the first century. [...] in particularly Christian fashion, [Saint] Paul uses the Stoic imagery of seeds to explain Christ's resurrection. The true reality of a human being, the seed may throw off both soul and flesh and assume a new body, as occurred when Christ was resurrected.[...] The Greek apologist Justin Martyr develops the Stoic doctrine of God as the logos spermatikos more explicitly. Following Philo in identifying the divine logos with the logos spermatikos, he believes that human reason is the seed sown by the divine sower.»
