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On the Posterity of Cain

Philo of Alexandria · Parte 143

[143] Do you not see that even God does not utter his oracles, having a regard to their being in proportion to the magnitude of his own oracular power, but always having respect to the capacity of those who are to be benefited by them? Since who could receive the whole power of the words of God, which are too mighty for any one to listen to? On which account those persons appear to speak with great truth, who say to Moses, "Do thou speak to us, and let not God speak to us, lest we die." [130] For they know that they have not in themselves any organ which can be worthy of God who is giving laws to his church;