16. And yet, at any rate, throughout the long duration of time and antiquity he [Moyses] would have had a very free hand for fabricated falsehoods. For he was born two thousand years19 ago, a span of time such that not even their poets20 ventured to refer to it the births of the gods, let alone the deeds or the laws of men. 17. This narrative will, therefore, in due course, set forth the precise details of what is in the Scriptures according to its proper order.21 For I promised that I would do
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