It gives an account of a state of the world and of human nature entirely different from the present: Of our fall from that state: Of the age of man, extended to near a thousand years: Of the destruction of the world by a deluge: Of the arbitrary choice of one people, as the favourites of heaven; and that people the countrymen of the author: Of their deliverance from bondage by prodigies the most astonishing imaginable:
Gaurkoarekin inolako zerikusirik ez duen munduaren egoeraz eta giza naturaz mintzatzen zaigu, egoera hori nola galdu genuen, ia mila urtetara iristen den gizakumearen adinaz, uholde batek suntsitu zuen munduaz, herri bat nahierara hautatua izateaz zeruaren kuttuntzat, autorearen herrikideek osatzen zuten herria hain zuzen, morrontzatik askatu izanaz inork irudi ditzakeen mirari txundigarrienak medio.