[571] It is necessary before all, to restore the language of Moses, lost, as I have said, for more than twenty-four centuries; it must be restored with the aid of Greek and Latin which chain it to the illusory versions; it is necessary to go back to its original source and find its true roots: this enormous work that I have undertaken, I have accomplished.
[572] Fortun. apud August., Disput., ii.; August., Contr. Faust., l. xxi., c. ult.
[573] Origène, cité par Beausobre, Hist. du Manich., t. ii., v., ch. 6.
[574] Beausobre, ibid., t. ii., p. 346.
[575] Hiérocl., Aur. Carmin. v. 49 et 50.
[576] Plat., In II. Alcibiad.
“Accordez-moi, grands Dieux, ce qui m’est nécessaire,
Soit que je pense ou non à vous le demander;
Et si de mes désirs l’objet m’était contraire,
Daignez, grands Dieux, daignez ne pas me l’accorder.”