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On the Principle that the Worse is accustomed to be always plotting against the Better

Philo of Alexandria · Parte 133

[133] For never may the speech of a wicked man be interpreter of divine doctrines, for such an one would deform their beauty by his own pollutions; and, on the other hand, may what is intemperate and disgraceful never be related by the utterance of a virtuous man, but may sacred and holy conversations always deliver the relation of holy things.