Philonis Judaei Paralipomena Armena

the rational part, in which there is wickedness, and fortitude for the irascible part, and temperance for the concupiscible part. But anger and desire are the beastly parts. He indicated the three rivers by the places through which they go. But the Euphrates, because it is a sign of justice, he did not (describe). Because there is no specific part given to the soul, but in every respect, it is possessed by a certain harmony and arrangement of the three parts of the soul, and of the corresponding virtues.

Why does he place man in the garden for two things: to work and to keep it? For the garden was not in need of work, since it was perfect in everything as if planted by God. And it was not in need of a keeper, for who was there to despoil it?

XIV. There are two things that the farmer must keep in mind and learn: working the field, and the guardianship of those things that are in it. For it is destroyed either by inaction or by plundering. Now, the garden, although it was not in need of any of these things, yet it was necessary for the one who received its oversight and care—the first man—to be, as it were, a law for laborers in all things that are proper to work. But it was fitting, as it was full in all respects, to leave to the farmer...

"He is not prudent, he is ignorant; that is evil." But the aforementioned words of Saint Ambrose better express the mind of the author.

1 S. Ambrose, On Paradise, ch. iv, n. 25. "Philo, however, because he did not grasp spiritual matters with a Jewish affect, held himself to moral ones, so that he might teach (or say): These two things are sought, work in the field and the guardianship of the house. And although, he says, Paradise did not need rural work, yet because the first man was to be the law for posterity, therefore he assumed a species (or specimen) of labor even in Paradise, so that he might bind us to the work and guardianship of a due duty and of hereditary succession." These are cited also among the testimonies of the ancients regarding Philo. Gr. Lat. ed. adds these words by right: "These do not occur in the published works of Philo." Truly, in this our edition, many places of Philo still occur in Ambrose, although without citation by name.