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On the Virtues: Courage, Humanity, and Repentance

Philo of Alexandria · Parte on-humanity.134

[134] [cap.26] [Yonge. 18] And being desirous to implant the seeds of gentleness and humanity in the minds of men, by every kind of expedient imaginable, he adds also another injunction akin to the preceding one, forbidding any one to sacrifice the mother and the offspring on the same day, for even if they are both to be sacrificed, still it must be at different times, for it is the greatest extravagance of barbarity to slay in one day the animal which has been born and her who is the cause of its birth.