The Works of Philo Judæus, Vol. 2

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Excerpt from The Works of Philo Judæus, Vol. 2: The Contemporary of JosephusVII. Let us now again in its turn consider what is the united body of evils voluntarily incurred. Our soul being capable of being divided into three divisions, one division is said to have fallen to the lot of the mind and of reason, the second to passion, and the third to appetite, and each sepa rate one of these has its own peculiar evils, and also they have all common and mutual diseases. Since the mind reaps the harvest which folly, and cowardice, and intemperance, and in justice sow, and passion brings forth frantic and insane strife and con¿ict, and all the other numerous evils with which it is pregnant, and appetite disseminates in every direction the impetuous and fickle loves of youth which descend upon every object, animate or inanimate, which it chances to meet with. For then, as if in any vessel, the sailors, and the passengers, and the pilots, had all, under the in¿uence of insanity, agreed to destroy it, those who have joined in the plot against it are none the less involved in the same destruction.For the heaviest of all evils, and almost the only one that is incurable, is the unanimous energy of all the parts of the soul agreeing to commit sin, not one of the parts being able to act with soundness (just as is the case in an evil affecting the whole people), so as to heal those that are sick but even the physicians being diseased as well as their patients, whom the pestilential disease has overwhelmed and weighs down under a confessed calamity.Of this great evil, that great deluge described by the law giver is an image, for the torrents from heaven continually pouring down cataracts of wickedness itself with impetuous violence. And springs from the ground (by which I mean the body) continually bursting up and pouring forth streams of every passion in great numbers and vast size, which. Uniting and being mingled in the same stream with the other waters, are thrown into confusion, and overthrow the whole region of the soul which has received them with incessant eddies and Whirlpools. F or, says Moses, the Lord God.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.