 An inverse relation between the individual and the universal: for Stoic philosophers, natural law is the logos in its function of commanding what must be done or avoided. No particular human law corresponds with the natural law, though Cicero tried to demonstrate that Roman religious law could coincide at least partly with the law of nature. In Philo’s thought, the Torah is described as containing many elements of natural law, and its claims to universality were concretized in the Greek of the Septuagint.