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[166]
For whereas the Egyptians were formerly addicted to different customs,
and despised one another's sacred and accustomed rites, and were very angry
one with another on that account, Abram conferred with each of them, and,
confuting the reasonings they made use of, every one for their own practices,
demonstrated that such reasonings were vain and void of truth: whereupon
he was admired by them in those conferences as a very wise man, and one
of great sagacity, when he discoursed on any subject he undertook; and
this not only in understanding it, but in persuading other men also to
assent to him. He communicated to them arithmetic, and delivered to them
the science of astronomy; for before Abram came into Egypt they were unacquainted
with those parts of learning; for that science came from the Chaldeans
into Egypt, and from thence to the Greeks also.
Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
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