Quod Deterius Potiori Insidiari Soleat

On which account Moses, also, in his praises of Levi, having previously said many admirable things, adds subsequently, "He has guarded thy oracles and kept thy covenant." [*]( Deuteronomy xxxiii. 9. ) And presently he continues, "They shall show thy justification to Jacob, and thy law to Israel.

Therefore, he here clearly asserts that the good man is the guardian of the words and of the covenant of God. And, indeed, in another place he has shown that he is the best interpreter and declarer of his justifications and laws; the faculty of interpretation being displayed through its kindred organ—the voice, and guardianship being exerted through the mind, which having been made by nature as a great storehouse, easily contains the conceptions of all things, whether bodies or things. It would therefore have been worth the while of this self-loving Cain to have been the keeper of Abel; for if he had kept him he would have attained to a compounded and moderate kind of life, [*](In quoting this passage above, I used the translation as given in the bible, they " shall minister with their brethren in the tabernacle;" but the Greek of the text was the same in that passage as it is here. ) [*]( Deuteronomy xxxiii. 9. )