Now, being copious in word and broad in thought, and having become lofty and exalted in his contemplations upon the divine Scriptures, he has made his exposition of the sacred discourses varied and manifold: on the one hand, with connection and consecutiveness, going through the treatment of the things in Genesis, in what he entitled «Allegories of the Sacred Laws»; on the other hand, making distinct divisions of chapters of the questions raised in the Scriptures, with statements of difficulties and their resolutions, in those which he has accordingly entitled «Questions and Solutions on Genesis and on Exodus.»
And besides these there are by him specially elaborated studies on certain problems, such as the two books «On Husbandry,» and as many «On Drunkenness,» and certain others deemed worthy of a different and proper title: such as «On the things which the sober mind prays for and curses,» and «On the Confusion of Tongues,» and «On Flight and Finding,» and «On Nature and Discovery,» and «On the Meeting for the sake of Instruction,» and «On who is the heir of divine things, or on the division into equal and opposite parts,» and still «On the three virtues which, with others, Moses described.»
In addition to these, the book «On those whose names are changed and why they are changed,» in which he says that he had also composed «On Covenants,» a first and a second.
And there is also by him a book «On Migration,» and «On the life of the wise man made perfect according to righteousness, or on Unwritten Laws.» And further, «On Giants,» or «On the Immutability of the Divine,» and «On dreams being, according to Moses, sent from God,» a first, second, third, fourth, fifth. And these indeed are the ones that have come down to us, of those on Genesis.
And on Exodus we have come to know of his «Questions and Solutions,» a first, second, third, fourth, fifth; and the one «On the Tabernacle,» and the one «On the Ten Oracles,» and the ones «On the laws which are referred, under the form of species, to the chief heads of the Ten Words,» a, b, c, d; and the one «On the animals appointed for the sacred rites, and what are the kinds of the sacrifices»; and the one «On the rewards set forth in the law for the good, and the penalties and curses for the wicked.»
In addition to all these, single books also are extant by him, such as that «On Providence,» and the treatise composed by him «Concerning the Jews,» and «The Statesman»; and further «Alexander, or that the irrational animals possess reason.» Besides these, the one «That every base person is a slave,» to which is consecutive the one «That every virtuous person is free.»
After these there has been composed by him the one «On the Contemplative Life, or Suppliants,» from which we have set forth the things concerning the life of the apostolic men. And the interpretations of the Hebrew names in the Law and the Prophets are said to be studies of the same man.
This man, then, having come to Rome in the time of Caius, is said to have gone through, before the whole senate of the Romans in the time of Claudius, the things written by him concerning the god-hatefulness of Caius — which, with a certain irony of character, he entitled «On the Virtues» — so that his discourses were even admired and counted worthy of being deposited in the libraries.
And at that time, while Paul was completing his journey from Jerusalem and round about as far as Illyricum, Claudius drove the Jews out of Rome; and Aquila and Priscilla, with the other Jews, having departed from Rome, put in at Asia, and there abode together with Paul the apostle, who was strengthening the foundations of the churches there that had but lately been laid by him. The sacred writing of the Acts is teacher of these things also.