[267] [cap.54] And it is well to hear what the things are which are thus said to have been predicted to Abraham. In the first place, that God does not grant to the man who loves virtue to dwell in the body as in his own native land, but only to sojourn in it as in a foreign country. "For knowing," says the scripture, "thou shalt know that thy seed shall be sojourners in a land which is not theirs." [179] But the district of the body is akin to every bad man, and in it he is desirous to abide as a dweller, not as a sojourner.