The creation of the world beginning to be distant, God provided a single contemporary historian, and appointed a whole people as guardians of this book, in order that this history might be the most authentic in the world, and that all men might thereby learn a fact so necessary to know, and which could only be known through that means.
Endroit: SECTION IX · ¶1861 Licence: Public domain · Source Le texte est donné tel que dans l'édition, sans retouche.