מי יורש קנייני אלוה כ״הWho is the Heir of Divine Things 25
א׳
1[125] We have said what was fitting on these points. Let us now return to the original subject, for we postponed much of what requires precise discussion. Take for me, it says, a “heifer” unyoked, undamaged, tender, young and fresh in spirit, a soul, that is, which can easily receive guidance and instruction and ruling; “take for me a ram,” that is speech active in argument and fully developed, competent to analyse and refute the sophisms of controversialists and to provide its possessor with a safe and well-ordered life;
ב׳
2[126] take for me also the sense that dashes and darts on to the sensible world, the she-goat that is; and take them all three years old, that is, formed according to the perfect number with beginning, middle and end.
ג׳
3And further take for me a turtle-dove and a pigeon, that is divine and human reason, both of them winged creatures, skilled by practice to speed upwards, yet differing from each other, as the genus differs from the species, or the copy from the archetype.
ד׳
4[127] For Divine wisdom is a lover of solitudes, since loneliness is dear to her because of the solitary God who is her owner, and thus in parable she is called the turtle-dove. The other is gentle and tame and sociable, frequenting the cities of men and pleased to dwell with mortals. Men liken her to a pigeon.
