More on Philo as the source of the "virgin birth"

From “On Mating with Preliminary Studies:”

1:3b:  “for indeed virtue is barren as regard all that is bad, but shows herself a fruitful mother of the good.”

2:7b:  For in ordinary course, she bears for God only, thankfully rendering the firstfruits of the blessings bestowed upon her to Him who, as Moses says, opens the womb which yet not loses its virginity.

These statements appear in Philo’s attempt to construct an allegoric reading of Judean text by which Greco-Romans could understand TaNaKh as a philosophic work rather than as a cultural history.   In doing so, Philo contributed to the Greco-Roman misunderstanding of Judean text.