But I wish now to give you a more accurate demonstration, God helping me, of the historical periods, that you may see that our doctrine is not modern nor fabulous, but more ancient and true than all poets and authors who have written in uncertainty. For some, maintaining that the world was uncreated, went into infinity; 671 and others, asserting that it was created, said that already 153,075 years had passed. This is stated by Apollonius the Egyptian.