On Phoenician Letters

which was manifest in the prophecies of Enochus Enoch and on two columns preserved until the times of Josephus. For who would be so insane as to think that those most holy men, and the children, pupils, and survivors of those who lived for nearly a thousand years in the highest inquiry of things, after the passage of one thousand six hundred and fifty years, lacked letters and established their golden age without them? Clearly, nothing of those things which are accustomed to both adorn and make life more blessed, whether placed in religion, or in morals, or in arts, or in doctrines and disciplines, was unknown to that most holy patriarch Noachus Noah, the restorer of the world, whom they call Ianus Janus. Therefore, that supreme Monarcha Monarch took care that, under the leadership of Gomerus Gomer, son of Japheth, the firstborn of this world—whom Josephus, a witness greater than any exception in this assertion, affirms to have been the parent of the Galli Gauls—he would bring and preserve, together with the other ornaments of the golden age,