Tusculan Disputations
Cicero's philosophical dialogues containing famous praises of philosophy, applied by Lapide to Scripture as "the light of life, the teacher of morals, the medicine of the soul."
Preface and Praise of Sacred Scripture
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Chapter I: On the Excellence, Necessity, and Fruit of Sacred Scripture
— Cicero's praises of philosophy applied to Scripture
"those praises of Cicero for Philosophy, or Ethics, most aptly apply, and they may rightly be called "the light of life, the teacher of morals, the medicine of the soul, the rule of right living, the nurse of justice, the torch of religion.""