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Let us now put the case, therefore, that we made use of this argument
concerning the Grecians, in order to prove that their nation was not ancient,
because nothing is said of them in our records: would not they laugh at
us all, and probably give the same reasons for our silence that I have
now alleged, and would produce their neighbor nations as witnesses to their
own antiquity? Now the very same thing will I endeavor to do; for I will
bring the Egyptians and the Phoenicians as my principal witnesses, because
nobody can complain Of their testimony as false, on account that they are
known to have borne the greatest ill-will towards us; I mean this as to
the Egyptians in general all of them, while of the Phoenicians it is known
the Tyrians have been most of all in the same ill disposition towards us:
yet do I confess that I cannot say the same of the Chaldeans, since our
first leaders and ancestors were derived from them; and they do make mention
of us Jews in their records, on account of the kindred there is between
us. Now when I shall have made my assertions good, so far as concerns the
others, I will demonstrate that some of the Greek writers have made mention
of us Jews also, that those who envy us may not have even this pretense
for contradicting what I have said about our nation.
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