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On the Confusion of Languages

Philo of Alexandria · Parte 60

[60] [cap.14] But those who conspired to commit injustice, he says, "having come from the east, found a plain in the land of Shinar, and dwelt there;" [31] speaking most strictly in accordance with nature. For there is a twofold kind of dawning in the soul, the one of a better sort, the other of a worse. That is the better sort, when the light of the virtues shines forth like the beams of the sun; and that is the worse kind, when they are overshadowed, and the vices show forth.