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On the Virtues: Courage, Humanity, and Repentance

Philo of Alexandria · Parte on-humanity.168

[168] And in another place also the lawgiver gives this precept, which is most becoming and suitable to a rational nature, that men should imitate God to the best of their power, omitting nothing which can possibly contribute to such a similarity as the case admits of. [cap.32] [Yonge. 24] Since then you have received strength from a being who is more powerful than you, give others a share of that strength, distributing among them the benefits which you have received yourself, in order that you may imitate God by bestowing gifts like his;