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hoof splitting the Geljon and Runia (2013) 216, 217, 219, 220, 221, 222, 231, 233
hoofs, cloven Rosenblum (2016) 14, 119, 147, 148
hoofs, front feet, neck, ears, ass, hateful to isis, ass form of lucius disappears - bristles, hide, belly, molars, tail Griffiths (1975) 13, 235

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1. Philo of Alexandria, On The Special Laws, 4.106-4.108 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE)
 Tagged with subjects: • cloven hoofs • splitting the hoof

 Found in books: Geljon and Runia (2013) 221; Rosenblum (2016) 148


4.106. And he gives two tests and criteria of the ten animals thus Enumerated{20}{4.107. for as the animal which chews the cud, while it is masticating its food draws it down its throat, and then by slow degrees kneads and softens it, and then after this process again sends it down into the belly, in the same manner the man who is being instructed, having received the doctrines and speculations of wisdom in at his ears from his instructor, derives a considerable amount of learning from him, but still is not able to hold it firmly and to embrace it all at once, until he has resolved over in his mind everything which he has heard by the continued exercise of his memory (and this exercise of memory is the cement which connects idea 4.108. But as it seems the firm conception of such ideas is of no advantage to him unless he is able to discriminate between and to distinguish which of contrary things it is right to choose and which to avoid, of which the parting of the hoof is the symbol; since the course of life is twofold, the one road leading to wickedness and the other to virtue, and since we ought to renounce the one and never to forsake the other.WHAT BEASTS ARE NOT CLEANXIX. ''. None



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