The Works of Philo Judaeus

XXVI. But Melchisedek shall bring forward wine instead of water, and shall give your souls to drink, and shall cheer them with unmixed wine, in order that they may be wholly Genesis xiv. 18. t Deuteronomy xxiii. 4. OX THE ALLEGORIES OF THE SACRED LAWS. 1 29 occupied with a divine intoxication, more sober than sobriety itself. For reason is a priest, having, as its inheritance the true God, and entertaining lofty and sublime and magnificent ideas about him, " for he is the priest of the most high God." Not that there is any other God who is not the most high ; for God being one, is in the heaven above, and in the earth beneath, and there is no other besides hira."f But he sets in motion the notion of the Most High, from his conceiving of God not in a low and grovelling spirit, but in one of exceeding greatness, and exceeding sublimity, apart from any conceptions of matter.