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Simon then, after inventing these , not only by evil devices interpreted the writings of Moses in whatever way he wished, but even the of the poets. For also he fastens an allegorical meaning on the wooden horse and Helen with the torch, and on very many other , which he transfers to what relates to himself and to Intelligence, and furnishes a fictitious explanation of them. He said, however, that this was the lost sheep. And she, always abiding among women, confounded the powers in the world by reason of her surpassing beauty. (en) |