Miscellanies 2.19.100

So the good man who has become an heir of the kingdom is enrolled, through divine wisdom, as a fellow citizen also of the righteous of old, those who lived lawfully under the law and before the law, whose actions have become laws for us. And again, teaching that the wise man is a king, it makes those not of his race say to him, “You are a king from God among us,” since those ruled obey the good man by a willing mind through zeal for virtue. And Plato the philosopher, setting happiness as the goal, says that it is likeness to God as far as possible; whether he in some way met with the doctrine of the law (for great natures, stripped of passions, somehow hit the mark concerning the truth, as the Pythagorean Philo says in expounding the books of Moses), or whether he was taught by certain oracles of that time, being always thirsty for learning. For the law says: “Walk after the Lord your God, and keep my commandments.” For the law calls likeness “following”; and such following makes one like, as far as possible. “Be merciful,” says the Lord, “and compassionate, as your heavenly Father is compassionate.”