On the Allegories of the Sacred Laws (2.48-2.52)

And in another passage he says: But if a man has two wives, one of them being loved and one of them being hated, and if they bear him children, and if the first-born son be the child of her who is hated; he will not be able to give the honours of the birthright to the child of the wife whom he loves, overlooking the first-born son the child of her who is hated.[*] For the productions of virtue which is hated, are the first and the most perfect, but those of pleasure, which is loved, are the last.

On this account a man will leave his father and his mother and will cleave to his wife; and they two shall become one flesh. On account of the external sensation, the mind, when it has become enslaved to it, shall leave both its father, the God of the universe, and the mother of all things, namely, the virtue and wisdom of God, and cleaves to and becomes united to the external sensations, and is dissolved into external sensation, so that the two become one flesh and one passion.

And here you must observe that it is not the woman who cleaves to the man, but on the contrary, the man who cleaves to the woman; that is to say, the mind cleaves to the external sensations. For when that which is the better, namely, the mind, is united to that which is the worse, namely, the external sensation, it is then dissolved into the nature offlesh, which

There is also another being called by an opposite name, Levi; he who says to his father and mother: He saw you not, and he did not recognize his brethren, and repudiated his children.[*] This man leaves his father and mother; that is to say, his mind and the material of his body, in order to have as his inheritance the one God; For the Lord himself is his inheritance.[*]

And, indeed, suffering is the inheritance of him who is fond of suffering; but the inheritance of Levi is God. Do you not see that he bids him on the tenth day of the month bring two goats as his share, one lot for the Lord and one lot for the scape-goat.[*] For the sufferings inflicted on the scape goat are in real truth the lot of him who is fond of suffering.