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On the question, Who is the Heir of Divine Things

Philo of Alexandria · Parte 89

[89] for in proportion, I suppose, as that which judges is better or worse than that which is judged of (for the mind is [72] [73] [74] better than the outward sense, and the outward sense is duller than the intellect; in the same ratio do the subjects of the judgment differ; so that the objects of the intellect are infinitely superior to those of the outward senses; for the eyes in the body are the smallest imaginable portion of the eye of the soul; for the one is like the sun, but the others only resemble lamps, which are at one time lighted and at another extinguished.