אליגוריות החוקים, ספר ג פ״בAllegorical Interpretation of Genesis, Book III 82
א׳
1[230] “It devours even as far as Moab,” that is to say as far as Mind. For whom else does false opinion deceive but wretched Mind? It devours and eats up yea and swallows down the boundary-stones in it, that is, each particular thought or judgement, which are graved and chiselled as though upon a boundary-stone. The stones are Arnon, which means “their light,” since it is in reasoning that each matter is elucidated.
ב׳
2[231] This is how he begins the dirge over the headstrong and selfish Mind: “Woe to thee, Moab: thou art undone”; for if thou heedest guesses made according to what is probable, thou hast lost truth. “The people of Chemosh,” that is thy people and its power has been found to be maimed and blinded; for “Chemosh” means “as a groping,” and groping is characteristic of one who cannot see.
ג׳
3[232] These find their sons, each particular reasoning, fugitives, while their judgements, corresponding to daughters, are captives of war to the king of the Amorites, that is “the lecturer of men fond of talking”; for the Amorites, if we translate the name, are “men fond of talking,” being a figure of the uttered word, and the prince of these is the lecturer or sophist clever at searching after verbal artifices, and those who transgress the boundary of truth place themselves at the mercy of his quibbling.