De Sacrificiis Abelis Et Caini

There is also another proof that the mind is immortal, which is of this nature:—There are some persons whom God, advancing to higher degrees of improvement, has enabled to soar above all species and genera, having placed them near himself; as he says to Moses, "But stand thou here with [*](Genesis xxv. 8. ) [*](Genesis xlix. 33. ) [*](Genesis xxxv. 25. )

me." [*](Deuteronomy v. 31. ) When, therefore, Moses is about to die, he is not added to one class, nor does he forsake another, as the men before him had done; nor is he connected with "addition" or "subtraction," but "by means of the word of the Cause of all things, by whom the whole world was made." [*]( Deuteronomy xxxiv. 5. ) He departs to another abode, that you may understand from this that God accounts a wise man as entitled to equal honour with the world itself, having both created the universe, and raised the perfect man from the things of earth up to himself by the same word.