2 Maccabees 2:24

For considering the infinite number, and the difficulty which they find that desire to look into the narrations of the story, for the variety of the matter,

For considering the infinite number, and the difficulty which they find that desire to look into the narrations of the story, for the variety of the matter,

For having in view the confused mass of the numbers, and the difficulty which awaits those who would enter into the narratives of the history, by reason of the abundance of the matter,