[42] On this account he has attributed to Jacob, the man who was made perfect by practise, a skill in the science of a shepherd, saying: "For he is the shepherd of Laban’s sheep." [5] That is, of the sheep of the foolish soul, which thinks only those things good which are the objects of the outward senses and apparent to them, being [6] deceived and enslaved by colours and shadows; for the name, Laban, being interpreted, means "whitening."