על החוקים לפרטיהם, ספר א ס״גOn the Special Laws, Book I 63
א׳
1[344] Such is the chain of argument which leads the votaries of mind and the votaries of the senses to ascribe divinity to their respective idols, forgetting in their self-assertion the God Who truly exists. And therefore Moses naturally banished them all from the holy congregation, both those who abolish the Forms, who appear under the name of “the crushed,” and those who absolutely deny God, to whom he assigned the suitable title of “the mutilated” and those who preach the opposite doctrine of a family of gods, called by him “the children of the harlot,” and finally the self-assertive, one party of whom deify the reason, the other each several sense. For these last all press to the same goal, though influenced by different plans for attaining it, and ignore the one and really existing God.
ב׳
2[345] But we, the scholars and disciples of Moses, will not forgo our quest of the Existent, holding that the knowledge of Him is the consummation of happiness. It is also agelong life. The law tells us that all who “cleave to God live,” and herein it lays down a vital doctrine fraught with much wisdom. For in very truth the godless are dead in soul, but those who have taken service in the ranks of the God Who only IS are alive, and that life can never die.