De Sacrificiis Abelis Et Caini

For the stream of the intemperate soul, flowing outwards through the mouth and tongue, is pumped up and poured [*](Genesis xviii. 6 )

into all ears. Some of which having wide channels, keep that which is poured into them with all cheerfulness; but others, through the narrowness of the passages, are unable to be bedewed by it. But that which overflows being poured forth in an unrestrained manner, is scattered in every direction: so that what has been concealed escapes and floats on the top of it, and, like a random torrent of mud, bears along with it in its flood, things worthy of being tended with all care.