Moreover you shall provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens:
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Augustine of Hippo
AD 430
Moses in fact took care to appoint teachers of reading and writing for God’s people before they had any written record of God’s law. The Septuagint Scripture calls these instructors grammatoeisagogo&#;&#;, which is Greek for “bringersin of letters,” because they brought them, in a sense, into their students’ minds or perhaps introduced their students to them.