Complete Works of Philo Judaeus, Vol. 1

§. 1. Some of the other lawgivers have set down what they considered to be just 1 without any ornamentation original: "ἀκαλλώπιστα" and naked, while others, having wrapped their meanings in a great mass of language, have blinded the multitudes by concealing the truth under mythical inventions. But Moses, having surpassed both, having rejected the one as unexamined, effortless, and unphilosophical, and the other as mendacious and full of sorcery, has made a most beautiful and most august beginning to his laws; not by stating immediately what must be done or the opposite, nor, since it is necessary to pre-form the minds of those who are to use the laws...