From the Works of Philo The Miserable Mind, A Deceiver And it devours even as far as Moab, that is to say as far as the mind. For what other creature, except the miserable mind, can a false opinion deceive? It devours and consumes, and, in truth, it swallows up the pillars in it, that is to say, all the particular notions which are engraved and impressed upon it, as upon a pillar. But the pillars are Arnon, which being interpreted means, The Light of Arnon, since every one of these facts is made clear by reasoning. Accordingly, Moses begins presently to lament over the self satisfied and arrogant mind in this manner, Woe unto thee, O City of Moab! For, if you give attention to the riddles which arise out of the perception what is probable, you have destroyed the truth by so doing
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