5 For reasoning is not an eradicator, but an antagonist of the passions.
6 And this may be more clearly comprehended from the thirst of king David.
7 For after David had been attacking the Philistines the whole day, he with the soldiers of his nation killed many of them;
8 then when evening came, sweating and very weary, he came to the royal tent, about which the entire host of our ancestors was encamped.
9 Now all the rest of them were at supper;
10 but the king, being very much thirsty, although he had numerous springs, could not by their means quench his thirst;
11 but a certain irrational longing for the water in the enemy’s camp grew stronger and fiercer upon him, and consumed him with languish.