Book on the Universe

...you consider their language, their rites of living, or the lineaments of their bodies. And a little later: For they call those Arameans whom we call Syrians. Here they think the Erembi are meant, a name common to three peoples. The Lydians are the offspring of the Ludim. For V is easily wont to be turned into Y. Eber is the parent of the Hebrews. Providence willed the others to be by an unknown name, except for one, Huz, who was the nomenclator of the region of Husitis, whence Job is recognized. But of these, in their own place. Since, however, Providence instituted the world to be governed by a Double Magistracy, namely, the Sacred or Sacerdotal and the temporal or Civil, of both of which the judge is the minister, it also willed that the first rights of the world assigned to these magistracies should so hold the ratio of the Divine order and Celestial influx that it might appear most firmly established by Divine right, Celestial influx, and human reason. Therefore, since we must pay the greatest attention to those parts of the world from which we have obtained the greatest gains, we will touch upon those two regions most especially in a particular description and origin, which are in the Birthright of the world. Since, however, nothing is clearer, happier, or more admirable than that province from which Divine Law flowed, from which the worship of one God especially arose, and which itself, being neighboring and exposed to the greatest powers of the world, could never be subdued by external religions or principalities as long as its chosen inhabitants were occupied with the equity which the law received from God prescribed to them: by right, I shall dwell on it in the first treatise, as I had long ago written, with the causes added before its treatise.