Liber II (De rerum humanarum natura et statu)

Volumes VIII / 4 and 5 include a reconstruction of the first and second version of the second book (On Man) of the Sacra (Paralella), a florilegium compiled by a monk named John at the beginning of the 7^th century, erroneously attributed to John of Damascus. The version includes 2293 texts taken from the Bible, the Church Fathers, Philo of Alexandria, and Flavius Josephus.