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Accordingly, I shall now first describe this form of government which
was agreeable to the dignity and virtue of Moses; and shall thereby inform
those that read these Antiquities, what our original settlements were,
and shall then proceed to the remaining histories. Now those settlements
are all still in writing, as he left them; and we shall add nothing by
way of ornament, nor any thing besides what Moses left us; only we shall
so far innovate, as to digest the several kinds of laws into a regular
system; for they were by him left in writing as they were accidentally
scattered in their delivery, and as he upon inquiry had learned them of
God. On which account I have thought it necessary to premise this observation
beforehand, lest any of my own countrymen should blame me, as having been
guilty of an offense herein. Now part of our constitution will include
the laws that belong to our political state. As for those laws which Moses
left concerning our common conversation and intercourse one with another,
I have reserved that for a discourse concerning our manner of life, and
the occasions of those laws; which I propose to myself, with God's assistance,
to write, after I have finished the work I am now upon.
Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
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