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On the question, Who is the Heir of Divine Things

Philo of Alexandria · Parte 53

[53] for, says the scripture, "Adam called his wife’s name Eve (ζωή), because she was the mother of all living," [42] that is to say, of those who are in real truth dead as to the life of the soul; but they who really live have wisdom for their mother and the outward sense for their slave, which has been created by nature for the purpose of ministering to knowledge;