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On Drunkenness

Philo of Alexandria · Parte 120

[120] On which account also, the question is put, "How didst thou find it so quickly, O my son?" [62] the questioner marvelling at the promptness of the virtuous disposition; and he who has received the benefit answers felicitously, "Because the Lord God gave it to me." For the gifts and explanations of men are slow, but those of God are most rapid, outstripping the motion of even the most speedy time.