Often I have wondered,how at length ye are affected towards me and whence ye are so much discomfited by our deficiency, by the unimportant and slight and none having equal affection, and by reasons [λόγοις] ye urge uson in friendship, even putting us in mind of the fatherland, even as anyonewho flees paternal...
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The words [or, “reasonings;”λόγοι] are really [lit., “existing;” ὄντως]images [εἰκόνες] of the soul [ψυχῶν]. We observe thee, in fact, bythe letter [γράμματος], so much as, itis said, fromthe claws of the lion;1we have taken delight to discover no idle disposition [διακείμενον] concerning the first and greatest of the good...
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Judaism contends with Hellenism, and both with Christianity [literally, “Christianism”], they are warriors even with Israel, like as the Egyptians and Assyrians and others; this, and we discover in the evil,cowardice and rashness and other corresponding things, even insolence. Whence is such a thing...
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