Works of Philo On Mating with the Preliminary Studies Night 5, Post 3 Now recollection only comes in the second rank after memory, as inferior to it, and he who recollects is inferior to him who remembers, for the latter resembles a man in an uninterrupted state of good health, but the other is like a man recovering from a disease, for forgetfulness is a disease of the memory, and it follows inevitably that the man who exerts his recollection has previously forgotten what he now recollects. Therefore the sacred scriptures call memory, Ephraim, which name being interpreted, means fruit bearing, But the Hebrews call recollection, after forgetfulness, Manasseh, for, in good truth, the soul of the man who remembers does bear as fruit the things which he has learned, losing nothing of them, but the soul of the man who exerts recollection, is only escaping from forgetfulness, by which it was detained before it recollected. Therefore, A citizen wife, memory, lives with the man who is endowed with remembrance. But the Concubine, Recollection, a Syrian by birth, insolent and overbearing, lives with the man who forgets, for the meaning of the name, Syria, is Sublimity
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