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On the Virtues: Courage, Humanity, and Repentance

Philo of Alexandria · Parte on-humanity.97

[97] [cap.19] [Yonge. 11] Again. Are not all the enactments about the seventh year so formally established, enjoining the people to leave all the land that year fallow and uncultivated, and allowing the poor to go with impunity over the fields of the rich to gather the fruits which that year grow spontaneously as the gift of nature, most merciful and humane ordinances?