2 Maccabees 2:30-32

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

³⁰ For as the master builder of a new house must have care of the whole building: but he that taketh care to paint it, must seek out fit things for the adorning of it: so must it be judged for us.

³¹ For to collect all that is to be known, to put the discourse in order, and curiously to discuss every particular point, is the duty of the author of a history:

³² But to pursue brevity of speech, and to avoid nice declarations of things, is to be granted to him that maketh an abridgment.