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On the Posterity of Cain

Philo of Alexandria · Parte 115

[115] But if there were any such thing as an absolutely independent authority added, then becoming full of arrogant domination, and elated with vanity and false opinions, forgetting themselves and the contemptible material of which they are composed, they look upon themselves as composed of a more valuable material than the composition of man admits of; and becoming swollen with pride, they think themselves worthy of even divine honours. At all events, before now some persons have ventured to say, that they "do not know the true God," [94] forgetting their own human nature, by reason of the immoderate excess of corporeal and external things [...] and each imagining [...] [95]