The Book of Formation of the Patriarch Abraham

to raise up a defender, I have truly and de-
servedly consecrated this doctrine of Abraham,
inscribed to your order, for posterity, so
that the whole world may know that the Church of God
has always been in the same condition.
For since it is established by the countless writers
who are students of your school, that the discussion
of divine truth has been conducted on both
sides in such a way that it seems either to completely
agree with right reasonLatin: ratio. For Postel, "reason" is not just logic, but the divine order of the universe accessible to the human mind., or to conflict with it in no way,
it is also established that that eternal law, under whose guidance
the Golden AgeThe aureum seculum, a mythical period of primordial peace and righteousness. lived for at least 350 years under Noah
(who is also called JanusPostel follows a Renaissance tradition identifying the biblical Noah with the Roman god Janus, the god of beginnings and transitions, because Noah transitioned between the world before and after the Flood.),
was most closely joined to reason,
as is evident from its own decree;
it ought to be believed much more firmly
that the written law—when correctly understood by both
authority and the guidance of reason—
has defended and asserted itself.
For although, both because of the hatred of the Jews
and because of that separation, which—once the
Apostles were dead and [the mission] had turned to the nations—was made from the Gen-