The legislator of the Jews in a bolder spirit went to a further extreme and in the practice of his "naked” philosophy, as they call it, ventured to speak of him who was possessed by love of the divine. (Philo)

The legislator of the Jews in a bolder spirit went to a further extreme and in the practice of his "naked” philosophy, as they call it, ventured to speak of him who was possessed by love of the divine.

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