For the soul is His glory, and it is His praise, with which a person praises the blessed Holy One in prayer every day, with many praises and thanksgivings.
And because of this: I am Y”Y, that is My Name, and My glory I will not give to another, nor My praise to idols – these are the seventy appointed-ones, to whom the blessed Holy One does not give permission to have dominion over Her, those which are the veins of the liver, which is ‘another god’.
The spleen is ‘snake’, the extra lobe of the liver is ‘the whoring wife’, after she has acted dishonestly [Var. immorally ] with ‘other gods’, and has distributed her blood, which is her concentrate, to all the veins, she offers the leftover to the spleen who is her husband, the fool. For the spleen takes only the concentrate [Var. dregs] of blood, but she does not give him of any other blood, and because of this she is called ‘the extra lobe of the liver’, because she gives him only the leftover.