[159] [cap.44] Do you not see in the case of Abraham that, "when he had left his country, and his kindred, and his father’s house," [99] that is to say, the body, the outward senses, and reason, he then began to become acquainted with the powers of the living God? for when he had secretly departed from all his house, the law says that, "God appeared unto him," [100] showing that he is seen clearly by him who has put off mortal things, and who has taken refuge from this body in the incorporeal soul;