Philo Judaeus De Migratione Abrahami 67

[67] But the foolish man proceeds always by means of the two passions together, both anger and desire, omitting no opportunity, and discarding reason as his pilot and judge. But the man who is contrary to him has extirpated anger and desire from his nature, and has enlisted himself under divine reason as his guide; as also Moses, that faithful servant of God, did. Who, when he is offering the burnt offerings of the soul, "washes out the belly;" ¹ that is to say, he washes out the whole seat of desires, and he takes away "the breast of the ram of the consecration;" ² that is to say, the whole of the warlike disposition, that so the remainder, the better portion of the soul, the rational part, having no longer anything to draw ^{3 4 5 6 7} it in a different direction or to counteract its natural impulses, may indulge its own free and noble inclinations towards everything that is beautiful;