אליגוריות החוקים, ספר ג כ״זAllegorical Interpretation of Genesis, Book III 27
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1[83] What good thing had Abram already done, that he bids him estrange himself from fatherland and kindred there and dwell in whatever land God Himself may give him? (Gen. 12:1). And that is a city good and large and very prosperous, for great and precious are God’s gifts. But this character also did God create in such a shape as to merit esteem, for “Abram” means “father high-soaring,” and both epithets are grounds for praise.
ב׳
2[84] For when the mind does not, like a master, frighten the soul with threats, but governs it as a father, not granting it the things that are pleasant to it, but giving it even against its will the things that are good for it; when, in all matters turning away from what is base and from all that draws it to things mortal, it soars aloft and spends its time in contemplation of the universe and its different parts; when, mounting yet higher, it explores the Deity and His nature, urged by an ineffable love of knowledge; it cannot continue to entertain the principles it imbibed originally, but in its desire to improve itself seeks to change its abode for a better one.