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The Works of Philo Judaeus — Yonge · On the Birth of Abel and the Sacrifices Offered by Him and by His Brother Cain — unspecified — eng
XI. (46) Accordingly, Jacob, the practiser of contemplation, conceiving this to be an employment most closely akin to virtue, endured "to be the shepherd of the flocks of Laban," a man wholly devoted to colours and to forms, and, in sort, to lifeless substance…
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