to want amendment.

22. But while we are ourselves persuaded that our law was
made agreeably to the will of God, it would be impious for us
not to observe the same; for what is there in it that any body
would change? and what can be invented that is better? or
what can we take out of other people's laws that will exceed
it? Perhaps some would have the entire settlement of our
government altered. And where shall we find a better or
more righteous constitution than ours, while this makes us
esteem God to be the Governor of the universe, and permits
the priests in general to be the administrators of the
principal
affairs, and withal intrusts the government over the other
priests to the chief high priest himself? which priests our
legislator, at their first appointment, did not advance to that
dignity for their riches, or any abundance of other
possessions, or any plenty they had as the gifts of fortune;
but
he intrusted the principal management of Divine worship to
those that exceeded others in an ability to persuade men, and
in prudence of conduct. These men had the main care of the
law and of the other parts of the people's conduct committed
to them; for they were the priests who were ordained to be
the inspectors of all, and the judges in doubtful cases, and
the
punishers of those that were condemned to suffer
punishment.

23. What form of government then can be more holy than