OF ISIS AND OSIRIS.

Plutarch notes that ancient thought declared the sovereignty of Zeus original: "Διὸς" to be more venerable, as it is composed of knowledge and wisdom, and is older. I believe also that of the eternal life which God has attained, it is a happy thing not to leave behind the things that come into being through knowledge; but if the understanding of things that are, and the power of thought are removed, then immortality is not a life but a duration of time.

B. Therefore, the search for truth is a desire for Divinity, and especially the striving after the knowledge of the gods, as if this learning and inquiry were a analepsis taking up/recovery of sacred things; and there is no work more holy than this, not even the practice of purity and temple service.

[The Latin commentary discusses textual emendations, specifically concerning the negative particle in the manuscripts, citing the Basel edition of 1574 and the conjectures of the scholar Markland regarding the phrase "majesty of Jove." It concludes that the error in the text arose from a copyist misreading an 'I' used as a grammatical marker for part of the word itself.]

The text here engages in philological debate regarding the proper reading of "knowledge and wisdom" original: "ἐπιστήμης καὶ σοφίας" in the context of the antiquity of divine rule.