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On the Posterity of Cain

Philo of Alexandria · Parte 129

[129] for the meaning of the expression, "it is divided into four heads," is....... [113] nor distance; but virtue exhibits the pre-eminence and the power. And these spring from the word of God as from one root, which he compares to a river, on account of the unceasing and everlasting flow of salutary words and doctrines, by which it increases and nourishes the souls that love God.