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As to the care of writing down the records from the earliest antiquity
among the Egyptians and Babylonians; that the priests were intrusted therewith,
and employed a philosophical concern about it; that they were the Chaldean
priests that did so among the Babylonians; and that the Phoenicians, who
were mingled among the Greeks, did especially make use of their letters,
both for the common affairs of life, and for the delivering down the history
of common transactions, I think I may omit any proof, because all men allow
it so to be. But now as to our forefathers, that they took no less care
about writing such records, (for I will not say they took greater care
than the others I spoke of,) and that they committed that matter to their
high priests and to their prophets, and that these records have been written
all along down to our own times with the utmost accuracy; nay, if it be
not too bold for me to say it, our history will be so written hereafter;
- I shall endeavor briefly to inform you.
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