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On the Unchangeableness of God

Philo of Alexandria · Parte 136

[136] [cap.29] And the woman who met the prophet, [71] in the book of Kings, resembles this fact: "And she is a widow;" not meaning by that, as we generally use the word, a woman when she is bereft of her husband, but that she is so, from being free from those passions which corrupt and destroy the soul, as Thamar is represented by Moses.