24. But, let us dismiss these things, and let us otherwise approach him whose mind is (as) the rock; and let us interrogate him thus, with the questions (growing) out of these things (following): -- O bring thou forth the word of reason, not from a heart implicated in error²⁴, but advancing (this) as the fruit of the intelligent and rational soul; and, having meditated much, say between thyself and thy soul, --