5. Hence also, it seems to me, the great David pitying the misery of man mourns over his nature with such words as these, that, “man being in honour knew it not” (meaning by “honour” the equality with the angels), therefore, he says, “he is compared to the beasts that have no understanding, and made like unto them.” For he truly was made like the beasts, who received in his nature the present mode of transient generation, on account of his inclination to material things.