Philo Judaeus Quod Deus Sit Immutabilis 103

[103] Therefore, they being for a brief period overshadowed with the emblems of superstition, which is the great hindrance to holiness, and a great injury to those who have it and to those who associate with it; after that again stripping off their disguise, display their naked hypocrisy. And then like men, convicted of being aliens, they are looked upon as enemies, having entered themselves as citizens of that noblest of cities—virtue, while they have really no connection with it. For whatever is violent ( βίαιον) is also of short duration, as its very name imports, since it closely resembles short ( βαιὸν). And the ancients used the two words ( βαιὸν) and ( ὀλιγοχρόνιον) of short duration as synonymous.