Works of Philo On Mating with the Preliminary Studies Post 6 On this account he does not say that Sarah did not bring forth at all, but only that she did not bring forth for him, for Abraham. For we are not as yet capable of becoming the fathers of offspring of virtue, unless we first of all have a connection with her handmaiden, and the handmaiden of Wisdom is the encyclical Knowledge of Music and Logic, arrived at by Previous instruction For as in houses there are vestibules placed in front of staircases, and as in cities there are suburbs, through which one must pass in order to enter into the cities, so also, the encyclical branches of instruction are placed in front of virtue, for they are the road which conducts to her And as you must know that it is common for there to be great preludes to great propositions, and the greatest of all propositions is virtue, for it is conversant about the most important of all materials, namely, about the universal life of man, very naturally, therefore, that will not employ any short preface, but rather it will use as such, grammar, Geometry, Astronomy
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