First Sentence

"FORASMUCH as many and great things have been delivered unto us through the Law and the Prophets and the others that followed after them (for the which praise is due to Israel for instruction and wisdom), moreover, since not only should the readers themselves become proficient in these, but such lovers of learning should be able both by speaking and writing to profit them that are without,-my grandfather Jesus, having given himself greatly to the reading of the Law and the Prophets and the other books of one fathers, and having acquired sufficient familiarity in them, was also himself led to take a part in writing something appertaining to instruction and wisdom, in order that those who are lovers of learning and instructed in these things might make so much the more progress by a manner of life that is in accordance with the Law."