מי יורש קנייני אלוה ס״בWho is the Heir of Divine Things 62
א׳
1[313] Rightly then is the Sage declared to be the heir of the knowledge of the truths here mentioned. For “on that day,” says Moses, “God made a covenant with Abraham, saying, “to thy seed will I give this land” (Gen. 15:18).
ב׳
2[314] What land does he mean, but that which was mentioned before to which he now refers, the land whose fruit is the sure and stedfast apprehension of the wisdom of God, by which through His dividing powers He separates all things and keeps untouched by evil those that are good, as it is meet they should be kept for those who are born to life imperishable?
ג׳
3[315] Then he continues, “from the river of Egypt to the great river Euphrates” (Gen. 15:18). Here he shews how it stands with the perfected. Their perfecting begins with the body and sense and the parts which serve as organs, without which we cannot live, since they are needed for our training while in the life of the body. It ends in the attainment of the wisdom of God, that truly great river, brimming over with joy and gladness and all other blessings.
ד׳
4[316] For note that he does not fix the limits of the land as stretching from the river Euphrates to the river of Egypt—he would never have made virtue take a downward course into the bodily passions—but in the opposite order, from the river of Egypt to the great Euphrates. For all progress in good begins with the mortal and proceeds to the imperishable.
