En lector, librum damus vere aureum, planeque scholasticum, quo continentur haec

...information on the formation of manners and the whole life pleasing to God, enclosed in brief sentences and sayings like certain oracles. We have explained elsewhere at greater length the method of teaching piety and the honesty of manners, which has always been customary from the beginning among both our own people and the ethnici heathens/pagans.*

* In the preface which we provided for the poems of Pythagoras and Phocylides, and the little book of Xenophon concerning Hercules, translated by us, where we also commemorated the Greek authors who treated the doctrine of the formation of manners contained in brief sentences.