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On the Posterity of Cain

Philo of Alexandria · Parte 80

[80] "For what," says he, "could be better than that one’s thoughts, one’s contemplations, one’s conjectures, one’s suspicions, in a word, all one’s ideas, should, as I may say, proceed on well-set feet, so as to arrive at their desired goal without stumbling, the mind being borne witness to in everything that [62] [63] [64] [65] [66] is uttered." But I, if any man employs a felicitous and well directed mind to good objects only, account that man happy taking the law for my teacher in this view. For the law called Joseph "a prosperous man," [67] not in all things, but "in those matters in which God gave him prosperity." And all the gifts of God are good.