על שינוי השמות מ״זOn the Change of Names 47
א׳
1[267] He goes on to say—thereby heightening the glory of the child to be—that he will be born “in the other year” (Gen. 17:21). And by other year he does not mean an interval of time which is measured by the revolutions of sun and moon, but something truly mysterious, strange and new, other than the realm of sight and sense, having its place in the realm of the incorporeal and intelligible, and to it belongs the model and archetype of time, eternity or aeon. The word aeon signifies the life of the world of thought, as time is the life of the perceptible.
ב׳
2[268] In this same year, too, is “the hundredfold crop of barley found” (Gen. 26:12) by him who sows the gifts of God to produce an increase of blessings, and thereby increases to the uttermost the number of those who shall deservedly partake of it. But note that the sower generally reaps.
ג׳
3[269] Yet he, though he sowed, and thereby displayed the virtue which hates envy and vice, is not said to reap but to find. For He who ripened the ear of His benefits and filled it with corn was Another, even He who prepares and matures higher hopes and more abundant bounties and puts them forth to be found by those who seek.