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On the Unchangeableness of God

Philo of Alexandria · Parte 111

[111] But another mind attached to the body and the slave of the passions, having been sold as slave to the chief cook, [53] that is to say to the pleasure of our compound being, and being castrated and mutilated of all the masculine and generative parts of the soul, being afflicted with a want of all good practises, and being incapable of receiving the divine voice, being also separated and cut off from the sacred assembly, in which conferences and discussions about virtue are continually being brought up, is conducted into the prison of the passions, and finds grace, (a grace more inglorious than dishonour), with the keeper of the prison. [54]