Just as in the world the heaven has special honour greater than that of all other things, always being the same in itself,a so too the soul of him who philosophizes genuinelyb is inflexible and unchangeable. And truly equal to the heavenly nature is she whom in their ancestral language the Hebrews and Chaldaeans call “Rebekah,” which name is to be translated as “constancy”c since she suffers neither diminution nor increase. And (Scripture) tells her lineage, saying that she was born to “Bethuel,”