”We have already said in our prologue that the lives of honored men would be set forth as a pattern of virtue for those who come after them.[...]"

”We have already said in our prologue that the lives of honored men would be set forth as a pattern of virtue for those who come after them. Those who emulate their lives, however, cannot experience the identical literal events. […] [But] one might substitute a moral teaching for the literal sequence in those things which admit of such an approach.” (De Vita Moysis, p. 65)

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