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altar "the price of a dog." For whoever has had the "eye of the soul" dimmed by evil nourishment and teaching regarding the proper light, let him walk toward the truth that manifests in writing what is unwritten: "You who thirst, go to the water," says Isaiah, and "drink water from your own vessels," Solomon advises.
2 In the Laws, the philosopher Plato, who is descended from the Hebrews a common, though historically inaccurate, belief among early Christian writers concerning Plato, commands farmers not to irrigate or take water from others unless they have first dug on their own land and found it to be without water, what is called 'virgin' ground.
3 For it is righteous to help those in need, but it is not good to provide for idleness; and Pythagoras said that while it is reasonable to help someone lift a load, it is not appropriate to help them put it down.
4 The Scripture connects the ember of the soul and stretches the inner eye toward contemplation, perhaps even inserting something—like the farmer who grafts—or stirring up what already exists.
5 "For many among us," according to the divine apostle, "are weak and sick, and many sleep. But if we were to judge ourselves, we would not be judged."

11, 1 Now, this work is not a writing crafted for display, but it is stored up for me as memoirs for old age, a remedy against forgetfulness, truly an image and a shadow of those clear and living words which I was deemed worthy to hear, and of those blessed and truly worthy men.
2 One of these was in Greece, the Ionian, others in Greater Greece (one of them from Coele-Syria, another from Egypt), and others in the East; one of the latter was from the land of the Assyrians, another was a Hebrew from Palestine. But I encountered the last one (and he was the first in power) and rested, having tracked him down in Egypt, where he had remained hidden.