Philo of Alexandria · 1609 of 1726

Appendix 2 · The words of Philo.

The lawgiver says, "You shall not do all the things which we will do here this day, every one doing that which is pleasant in his own sight," by which words he declares as loudly as possible that there is no evil which may not be produced by selfishness and self-sufficiency, which must be eradicated from the mind as unholy feelings. Let no one embrace that which is pleasing to himself rather than that which is agreeable to nature, for the one is found to be the cause of mischief and the other the cause of benefit.