Philonis Judaei Opera Omnia (Vol. 7)

Thus also the hands were not made with an opposing aspect, but as brothers and divisible parts looking toward each other, prepared by nature for operation and the business befitting them, in the acts of receiving, giving, and working. The feet are no different, each of which so presents itself that it grants to the other, and the movement of the step is carried out by both; so that the thing cannot be accomplished by one alone. And not only the step and the shins, but also the thighs and the shoulder blades and the hips and the breasts and the right and left parts, in a most similar manner divided, indicate harmony, convenience, and union as of things connatural, individually, for instance, counted according to individual species.

And universally, whoever considers the prescribed bipartate parts, collected together and equal, will find one nature made from both. Just as hands united and tied with fingers are seen to bear harmony with them; and feet collected tend toward union; and ears gathered through the circle of the amphitheater figure unite themselves with an interval. So therefore our nature, always making a division of the parts that are in us according to individual species, separated the sections and arranged them as if against each other, in the way in which he arranged the world: just as also for the service of easy operation. And again, he united individuals according to individual species into one action, and the same operation, gathering all things considered universally.

And not only does one see the parts of the body thus joined and equal, in union divided and in division united, but also those of the soul. For the upper sections of this are two, like as many plains, namely the rational and the irrational, the parts of each section have