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1 1 | others which are hard and of iron, but this one is soft because
2 2 |     nature of the soul, like iron melted in the fire, may
3 2 |     the drinkers become like iron heated in the fire, and
4 3 |  getting at one another; for iron and brass and all metals
5 3 |   all the arts which require iron and brass and the like would
6 3 |    do not require any use of iron: and God has given these
7 6 |     ought to be of steel and iron, and not of earth; besides,
8 7 |   the warrior who has to use iron weapons, bows and javelins,
9 12|   proper offering; brass and iron, again, are instruments