אליגוריות החוקים, ספר ג נ״דAllegorical Interpretation of Genesis, Book III 54
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1[160] There is an excellent point in the next words too: “Thou shalt go upon thy breast and thy belly” (Gen. 3:14). For pleasure does not belong to the category of things becalmed and stationary, but to that of things moving and full of turmoil. For as the flame is in movement, so, not unlike a blazing thing, passion moving in the soul does not suffer it to be calm. Thus the prophet does not agree with those who say that pleasure is tranquil. For stillness pertains to a stone and a log and to everything without life, but it is alien to pleasure. For pleasure hankers after an excitement that is actually convulsive, and in some people so far from its being an experience of tranquillity, it is an indulgence in intense and violent movement.