[174] And he also says, "I will give unto you of all the good things of Egypt, and you shall eat of the marrow of the earth." [115] But we will say unto him, We who keep our eyes fixed on the good things of the soul do not desire those of the body. For that most delicious desire of the former things, when once implanted in the mind, is well calculated to engender a forgetfulness of all those things which are dear to the flesh.