On this account he has attributed to Jacob, the man who was made perfect by practise, a skill in the science of a shepherd, saying: "For he is the shepherd of Laban’s sheep." Genesis xxx. 36. That is, of the sheep of the foolish soul, which thinks only those things good which are the objects of the outward senses and apparent to them, being Genesis xxx. 36. deceived and enslaved by colours and shadows; for the name, Laban, being interpreted, means "whitening."