Selections from Petrus Galatinus’s De Arcanis Catholicae Veritatis on the Jews

Petrus Galatinus (Pietro Colonna Galatino, O.F.M., c. 1460–c. 1540) was an Italian Franciscan friar, papal theologian under Leo X, and a distinguished Hebraist. His De Arcanis Catholicae Veritatis (“On the Secrets of the Catholic Truth”), first published at Ortona in 1516, is a twelve-book dialogue—between Galatinus, the humanist Johann Reuchlin (“Capnio”), and the Dominican inquisitor Jakob van Hochstraten (“Hogstratus”)—devoted to demonstrating the truth of the Catholic faith against the Jews, chiefly from the Jews‘ own Talmudic and Kabbalistic writings. It was reprinted at Frankfurt in 1672. The selections below are translated from both editions and are organized thematically. Only direct quotations are given.

I. The Jews as a Daily Example of Divine Punishment

Judæi sunt nobis exemplum quotidianum, ne incidamus in iram Dei per impœnitentiam, post agnitam Veritatem.

“The Jews are for us a daily example, lest we fall into the wrath of God through impenitence after the acknowledged Truth.”

— De Arcanis, Preface to the Reader (Frankfurt ed., 1672, p. [Ad Lectorem])

Relinquens Judæorum vitam, avaritiæ deditam, deceptricem, & sceleribus variis contaminatam, Deo judici.

“[Galatinus,] leaving the life of the Jews—devoted to avarice, deceitful, and defiled with various crimes—to God as judge.”

— De Arcanis, Preface to the Reader (Frankfurt ed., 1672, p. [Ad Lectorem])

II. Against the Talmud and Its Blasphemies Against Christ

Hinc iuniorum Iudæorum inolevit error, qui dum antiquorum Theologizandi, ac philosophandi more ignorant, multa Talmudistici negotii arcana, in ludibria & blasphemias convertunt.

“From this has grown the error of the younger Jews, who, being ignorant of the manner in which the ancients theologized and philosophized, convert many of the secrets of Talmudic affairs into mockeries and blasphemies.”

— De Arcanis, Bk. I, Cap. VII (Frankfurt ed., 1672, p. 23–24)

Ad secundum vero dico, concedendum utique esse, multa mala atque turpia in Talmud de Jesu Nazareno dici. Non tamen ea de Jesu nostro Salvatore, sed de alio quodam referri.

“As to the second point, I say it must indeed be conceded that many evil and shameful things are said in the Talmud about Jesus of Nazareth. Yet these are not said about Jesus our Savior, but refer to a certain other person.”

— De Arcanis, Bk. I, Cap. VII (Frankfurt ed., 1672, p. 25)

Quod id de omnibus quæ sunt in Talmud credere, nihil aliud est, quàm præcipitatæ mentis insania.

“To believe this [i.e., that all things in the Talmud were given by God to Moses on Sinai] of everything that is in the Talmud is nothing other than the madness of a hasty mind.”

— De Arcanis, Bk. I, Cap. VII (Frankfurt ed., 1672, p. 25)

Luce meridiana clarius constat, Talmud ipsum à Christianis recipiendum esse, non tamen in omnibus, nisi in iis tantummodo quæ bona sunt.

“It is clearer than the midday sun that the Talmud itself is to be received by Christians—yet not in all things, but only in those things which are good.”

— De Arcanis, Bk. I, Cap. VII (Frankfurt ed., 1672, p. 27)

III. The Jews Killed the Messiah: Deicide

Quartum denique scelus fuit, quod ut ait prophetia ista, iustum, hoc est Messiam, argento vendiderunt, vel potius mercati sunt, & morti tradiderunt. Propter quod scelus a Romanis hac novissima captivitate captivati sunt, a qua nunquam eos Dominus reducet, quandiu scilicet tales fuerint.

“The fourth and final crime was that, as this prophecy says, they sold the Just One—that is, the Messiah—for silver, or rather purchased Him, and handed Him over to death. On account of this crime they were taken captive by the Romans in this most recent captivity, from which the Lord will never bring them back, so long as they remain as they are.”

— De Arcanis, Bk. IV, Cap. XXIV (Ortona ed., 1516, fol. [Quartus])

Messias quippe quem ipsi occiderunt, Deus & homo fuit. Quare odium quo cum gratis & affecerunt, & adhuc afficiunt, meritò omnibus priorum Iudæorum odiis, universisque sceleribus præponderat. De quo cum pœnitentiam agere nolunt, quamdiu in perfidia obstinati permanserint, nunquam eorum miserebitur Deus.

“For the Messiah whom they themselves killed was both God and man. Therefore the gratuitous hatred with which they both afflicted Him and still afflict Him deservedly outweighs all the hatreds and all the crimes of the former Jews. And since they refuse to repent of this, so long as they remain obstinately in their perfidy, God will never have mercy on them.”

— De Arcanis, Bk. IV, Cap. XXIII (Frankfurt ed., 1672, p. 275–276)

Jesus Nazarenus visus est esse Messias, & interfectus est a domo judicii, & fuit causa, ut Israel destrueretur gladio.

“Jesus of Nazareth was seen to be the Messiah, and was put to death by the court of judgment, and was the cause that Israel was destroyed by the sword.”

[Galatinus here cites Moses the Egyptian (Maimonides), Mishneh Torah, Hilkhot Melakhim]

— De Arcanis, Bk. IV, Cap. XXIII (Frankfurt ed., 1672, p. 275)

Cum omnes ferè morti Christi consenserint, non ab re hujusce sceleris perpetratio toti Israeli attribuitur, totusque Israel destruitur, atque totus per orbem nunquam reversurus, dispergitur.

“Since nearly all consented to the death of Christ, not without reason is the perpetration of this crime attributed to all Israel, and all Israel is destroyed, and all Israel is scattered throughout the world, never to return.”

— De Arcanis, Bk. IV, Cap. XXIV (Frankfurt ed., 1672, p. 276)

IV. The Gratuitous Hatred of the Jews Against Christ and His Disciples

O quàm grave est odium gratis, quod præponderat revelationi pudendorum, & idololatriæ, ac sanguinis effusioni!

“O how grave is gratuitous hatred, which outweighs the uncovering of shameful things, and idolatry, and the shedding of blood!”

— De Arcanis, Bk. IV, Cap. XXIII (Frankfurt ed., 1672, p. 271)

Nullum præterea odium gratis quod in puros homines fieri solet, cum illo odio gratis conferri potest, quo Judæi priores & Zachariam prophetam lapidaverunt, & Isaiam non obstante arboris ipsum suscipientis miraculo, medium secuerunt, & Jeremiam crudeliter afflixerunt, aliosque innumeros Dei prophetas gladio perempunt.

“Moreover, no gratuitous hatred such as is commonly directed at mere men can be compared with that gratuitous hatred by which the former Jews stoned the prophet Zacharias, and sawed Isaiah in two—notwithstanding the miracle of the tree that received him—and cruelly afflicted Jeremiah, and slew innumerable other prophets of God with the sword.”

— De Arcanis, Bk. IV, Cap. XXIII (Frankfurt ed., 1672, p. 271–272)

Saluatorem nostrum ejusque discipulos gratis, id est, sine causa & persecuti sunt, & persequuntur.

“They have both persecuted our Savior and His disciples without cause—that is, gratuitously—and they continue to persecute them.”

— De Arcanis, Bk. IV, Cap. XXIII (Frankfurt ed., 1672, p. 276)

V. Perpetual Reprobation of the Jews as Enemies of God, Cast Out of His House

De perpetua Iudæorum reprobatione, & quod tanquam Dei inimici, de domo Dei expellendi erant.

“On the perpetual reprobation of the Jews, and that as enemies of God they were to be cast out of the house of God.”

— De Arcanis, Bk. IX, Cap. IV (chapter title; Frankfurt ed., 1672, p. 507)

Iudæos Deus tanquam sibi rebelles & inimicos cum de domo sua abjecerit, & in æternum reprobaverit, ideo ad eorum confusionem hæc eis eventura fuisse, ex eorum scripturis afferenda sunt testimonia.

“Since God has cast out the Jews as rebels and enemies from His house and has reprobated them in eternity, therefore in order to confound them, testimonies from their own scriptures must be brought forward showing that these things were to befall them.”

— De Arcanis, Bk. IX, Cap. IV (Frankfurt ed., 1672, p. 507)

Ex his igitur quæ dicta sunt, manifestum est, Iudæos propter operum suorum maliciam, de domo Dei ab ipso Deo meritò ejiciendos fuisse, atque nunquam ab eo diligendos, donec in perfidia malicia permansurint.

“From all that has been said, it is manifest that the Jews, on account of the malice of their deeds, deservedly had to be cast out from the house of God by God Himself, and that He would never love them so long as they remained in the malice of their perfidy.”

— De Arcanis, Bk. IX, Cap. IV (Frankfurt ed., 1672, p. 508)

Obstinatus factus est populus iste Jerusalem obstitatione vehementi, vel æterna. Fortificaverunt se in dolo, & noluerunt converti. Attendi & audivi non ita, ut scilicet in corde habent, loquuntur. Non est vir quem pœniteat super malicia sua, dicens, quid feci? Universus conversus est ad cursum suum, velut equus impetuosus in prælio.

“This people of Jerusalem has become obstinate with a vehement—yea eternal—obstinacy. They have strengthened themselves in deceit and refused to be converted. I have listened and heard—they do not speak as they have in their heart. There is no man that repenteth of his evil, saying: What have I done? All are turned to their own course, as a horse rushing impetuously into battle.”

[Galatinus here quotes Jeremiah 8:4–6, in context of Israel‘s obstinacy]

— De Arcanis, Bk. IX, Cap. IV (Frankfurt ed., 1672, p. 508)

Iusta fuit Iudæorum destructio, dissipatio, ac perpetua captivatio, æternaque reprobatio.

“Just was the destruction, scattering, and perpetual captivity of the Jews, and their eternal reprobation.”

— De Arcanis, Bk. IX, Cap. X (Ortona ed., 1516)

VI. The Jews to Remain Without Prince, Sacrifice, or God Until the End of the World

Quod Iudæi absque Principe, absque sacrificio, & absque Deo, eorum exigente perfidia, usque ad mundi finem esse debebant.

“That the Jews, their perfidy so demanding, were to remain without a Prince, without sacrifice, and without God until the end of the world.”

— De Arcanis, Bk. IX, Cap. VI (chapter title; Frankfurt ed., 1672, p. [Table of Contents])

Usque ad tempus illud, absque rege, & Principe, absque sacrificio & sacerdote, absque lege, absque Deo vero, & absque Messia vero salvatore permanebit Judaica perfidia.

“Until that time [of the final conversion of a remnant], Jewish perfidy shall persist without king or prince, without sacrifice and priest, without law, without the true God, and without the true Messiah and Savior.”

— De Arcanis, Bk. IX, Cap. VI (Frankfurt ed., 1672, p. 511)

Dies multi erunt Israeli sine Deo vero, vel veritatis, & sine sacerdote docente, & sine lege.

“Many days shall Israel be without the true God—or the God of truth—and without a teaching priest, and without law.”

[2 Par. 15:3, cited and discussed by Galatinus]

— De Arcanis, Bk. IX, Cap. VI (Frankfurt ed., 1672, p. 510)

VII. The Jews Shall Never Return to Their Land

Quod Iudæi nunquam amplius in terram suam regressuri sunt, neque eam possessuri.

“That the Jews shall never again return to their land, nor shall they possess it.”

— De Arcanis, Bk. IX, Cap. V (chapter title; Frankfurt ed., 1672, p. 508–509)

Possessionem namque primam, atque secundam habituri erant, possessio autem tertia non erit eis.

“For they were to have the first and second possession [of the land], but a third possession shall not be theirs.”

[Galatinus cites the Talmudic tractate Yevamot and the Seder Olam]

— De Arcanis, Bk. IX, Cap. V (Frankfurt ed., 1672, p. 509)

Quare falsa prorsus sunt, antiquisque eorum scripturis penitus dissentanea, quæcunque de suo in Ierusalem reditu, deque templi rædificatione, ac terræ illius tertia possessione, contra nos objiciunt.

“Therefore utterly false, and entirely contrary to their own ancient scriptures, are all those things which they put forward against us concerning their return to Jerusalem, the rebuilding of the Temple, and the third possession of that land.”

— De Arcanis, Bk. IX, Cap. V (Frankfurt ed., 1672, p. 509)

Verumenimuero tertia denique terræ eorum possessio, quam ipsi frustra præstolantur, Sarracenis—teste Ezechiele—in eorum opprobrium ad tempus danda erat.

“But the third and final possession of their land, which they await in vain, was to be given for a time to the Saracens—as Ezekiel testifies—to their reproach.”

— De Arcanis, Bk. IX, Cap. V (Frankfurt ed., 1672, p. 509)

VIII. Division of Perfidious Jews from True Christians: Supersessionism

Ad denotandam enim eorum perfidiam, Iudæi hactenus vocantur, & vocabuntur, quamdiu in perfidia permanserint.

“For, to denote their perfidy, they have been called Jews up to this time, and shall be called Jews so long as they remain in their perfidy.”

— De Arcanis, Bk. IX, Cap. VII (Frankfurt ed., 1672, p. 511)

Eos qui Redemtorem nostrum verum Messiam receperunt, & salvatos fuisse, & nomine mutato Messihim, id est, Christianos vocatos. Qui autem ipsum recipere abnuerunt, nec eos salvari contigit, nec alio nomine vocari.

“Those who received our Redeemer as the true Messiah were both saved and called by a new name—Messihim, that is, Christians. But those who refused to receive Him were neither saved nor called by any other name.”

— De Arcanis, Bk. IX, Cap. VII (Frankfurt ed., 1672, p. 511)

Quemadmodum tunc maior Hebræorum pars—decem scilicet tribus—dixerunt, Non est nobis pars in David, neque hærediitas in filio Issai: ita tempore Messiæ maior pars Iudæorum dixit, Non habemus Regem, nisi Cæsarem: Dominum Iesum verum Messiam in David præfiguratum fatue reprobantes.

“Just as then the greater part of the Hebrews—namely the ten tribes—said, ‘We have no part in David, nor inheritance in the son of Jesse,’ so at the time of the Messiah the greater part of the Jews said, ‘We have no king but Caesar,’ foolishly reprobating the Lord Jesus, the true Messiah prefigured in David.”

— De Arcanis, Bk. IX, Cap. VII (Frankfurt ed., 1672, p. 512)

Sic & isti quia verum Messiam Dominum Iesum respuerunt, & duos falsos Messias receperunt, fuerunt in perpetuum & à Deo reprobati, & per Vespasianum & Titum Romanos Principes captivati.

“So also these, because they rejected the true Messiah, the Lord Jesus, and received two false Messiahs, were in perpetuity both reprobated by God and taken captive by the Roman princes Vespasian and Titus.”

— De Arcanis, Bk. IX, Cap. VII (Frankfurt ed., 1672, p. 512)

IX. All Honors and Privileges Transferred from the Jews to the Christians

Cornu quoque Messiæ tunc eis datum fuit, cùm Messias ipse eis ad salvandum missus est: tunc verò ab eis ablatum est, cùm illi Messiam ipsum reprobantes, ipsum crucifixerunt. Tunc autem Romanæ ecclesiæ ac cæteris fidelibus idem cornu datum est, cùm eundem Messiam gentes colendum susceperunt.

“And the horn of the Messiah was then given to them when the Messiah Himself was sent to them to save them; but it was taken from them when they, rejecting the Messiah, crucified Him. But then the same horn was given to the Roman Church and the other faithful, when the Gentiles received the same Messiah to worship.”

— De Arcanis, Bk. IX, Cap. X (Frankfurt ed., 1672, p. [Liber Nonus])

Cornu denique legis tunc bestiæ huic, quo ad cerimonialia perdendum, traditum est, cùm Romani Principes Iudæis, ne sabbatum aut circumcisionem, cæteraque legalia servarent, inhibuerunt. Tunc verò idem cornu quo ad moralia, perfectius servandum Romanis cæterisque Gentilibus datum est, cùm Gentiles ipsi legem Domini IESU veri Messiæ tanquam divinam susceperunt.

“And the horn of the Law was then given to this beast to be destroyed as to its ceremonies, when the Roman princes prohibited the Jews from observing the Sabbath, circumcision, and the other legal observances. But then the same horn, as regards the moral law, was given to be kept more perfectly by the Romans and the other Gentiles, when the Gentiles received the Law of the Lord Jesus, the true Messiah, as divine.”

— De Arcanis, Bk. IX, Cap. X (Frankfurt ed., 1672, p. [Liber Nonus])

Quod omnes dignitates olim Iudæis concessæ, ab eis auferendæ essent, & Gentilibus Messiam recepturis, tanquam vero & electo Dei populo concedendæ.

“That all the dignities once granted to the Jews were to be taken from them, and granted to the Gentiles who would receive the Messiah, as the true and elect people of God.”

— De Arcanis, Bk. IX, Cap. XIV (chapter title; Ortona ed., 1516)

X. On the Obstinacy and Blindness of the Jews

Iudæi, Mose patre eorum testimonium perhibente, semper adversus Deum ipsum, nedum contra veritatem contentiose egerunt.

“The Jews, as their father Moses himself bears witness, have always acted contentiously against God Himself, let alone against the truth.”

— De Arcanis, Bk. IX, Cap. I (Ortona ed., 1516, fol. [Nonus])

Obcæcata gens obstinato animo pergit, sua repugnante conscientia defendere, falsas interpretationes excogitare, Regnum externum Christi, & pompam splendidissimam, qua ingressurus sit ipsorum Messias, effingere.

“That blinded nation persists with an obstinate mind in defending [its errors], despite the protests of its own conscience, in devising false interpretations, and in inventing a temporal kingdom of Christ and a most splendid pomp with which their Messiah is to come.”

— De Arcanis, Preface to the Reader (Frankfurt ed., 1672, p. [Ad Lectorem])

Si iudæi recentiores nobis obijcerent, cur tam in hoc nomine quadraginta characteribus constante Dei nomini non utimur, responsum sit, Nos scilicet ideo non uti, quia pro nomine sacrosancto Iesum Christum verum Dei filium habemus, quod Iudæi abjiciunt & blasphemant.

“If the more recent Jews should object to us why we do not use the divine Name consisting of forty-two characters, the answer is: We do not use it because we have Jesus Christ the true Son of God as our sacred Name—which the Jews reject and blaspheme.”

— De Arcanis, Bk. II (Ortona ed., 1516)

Iudæi noftri seculi mentis cæcitate perculsi, inde potissimum ignorantiam suam produnt.

“The Jews of our own age, struck blind in mind, most especially betray their own ignorance in this.”

— De Arcanis, Bk. IV (Ortona ed., 1516)

XI. The Jewish Scribes Who Sacrilegiously Corrupted Holy Scripture

Quæ olim in sacris literis sancti patres, & prophetæ spiritu sancto dictante scripserant, ipsi Sophrim, id est scribæ multifariam, ac perperam depravare non sunt veriti.

“What the holy fathers and prophets once wrote in the sacred scriptures at the dictation of the Holy Spirit, these same Sophrim—that is, the scribes—did not shrink from corrupting in many ways and wrongly.”

— De Arcanis, Bk. I, Cap. VIII (Frankfurt ed., 1672, p. 29)

Pessimè eos id egisse, ex eo palàm liquet, quòd contra præceptum Dei facere ausi sunt, qui ita per Mosem dixit, Deut. 4.2. Non addetis super verbo, quod ego præcipio vobis, nec minuetis ex eo.

“That they acted most wickedly in this is clear, from the fact that they dared to act against God’s commandment, who said through Moses, Deut. 4:2: ‘You shall not add to the word that I command you, nor shall you take from it.'”

— De Arcanis, Bk. I, Cap. VIII (Frankfurt ed., 1672, p. 29)

UtChristianis igitur veritas patefiat, ipsorumque scribarum impudentissima opera in publicam deveniant notionem, rem non inutilem facies, si nefandissima eorum sacrilegia de divinis literis tam temerè facta, in lucem prodideris.

“In order that the truth may be made known to Christians, and that the utterly impudent works of those scribes may come to public notice, you will do a thing of no small use if you bring to light the most execrable sacrileges they have so rashly committed against the divine writings.”

— De Arcanis, Bk. I, Cap. VIII (Frankfurt ed., 1672, p. 29)

Septuaginta interpretes—ut de eis primùm dicam—multa, teste Talmud, Ptolemæo regi transferre omiserunt, & plurima mutaverunt, ne divina arcana gentilibus tunc indignis, nota fieri contingeret. Hinc etiam & ipsi Sophrim, id est, scribæ sive sapientes multa tanquam absurda, & tanquam ea quæ apud gentium nationes, nefas erat vel somniare, de divinis scripturis abraserunt.

“The Seventy interpreters—to speak of them first—according to the Talmud‘s own testimony, omitted many things in their translation for Ptolemy, and altered very many more, lest divine secrets be made known to the Gentiles, who were then unworthy. And in the same way the Sophrim themselves—that is, the scribes or sages—scraped away from the divine scriptures many things as if they were absurdities, and things which among the nations of the Gentiles it would be a sin even to dream of.”

— De Arcanis, Bk. I, Cap. VIII (Frankfurt ed., 1672, p. 27–28)

XII. Jewish Avarice, Crimes, and the Sins That Brought Down the Temple

Judæi priores, quorum flagitia fuerunt destructionis primi templi causa, in summo gradu extiterunt idololatræ, prophetarum occisores, legis divinæ contemptores, atque abjectores, luxuria, avaritia, odio, aliisque sceleribus innumeris pleni, ac pietatis operibus, aliisque bonis actionibus vacui.

“The former Jews, whose crimes were the cause of the destruction of the first Temple, were in the highest degree idolaters, murderers of the prophets, despisers and rejecters of the divine law, full of lust, avarice, hatred, and innumerable other crimes, and empty of works of piety and every other good action.”

— De Arcanis, Bk. IV, Cap. XXIII (Frankfurt ed., 1672, p. 269)

Captivitas hæc novissima, respectu illius Babylonicæ, infinita penè sit. Illa enim propter omnia illa priorum flagitia 70. duntaxat duravit annos: hæc autem hucusque supra 1460. neque ullus adhuc finis, vel consummationis ejus signum apparet. Quamobrem rationabiliter aliam nullam ipsius possunt assignare causam, quam Jesu Nazareni veri Messiæ mortem, qui Deus & homo erat.

“This most recent captivity is, in comparison with that of Babylon, nearly infinite. For that one lasted only 70 years for all those former crimes; this one has now continued for more than 1,460 years, and no end or sign of its conclusion yet appears. Therefore they cannot reasonably assign any other cause for it than the death of Jesus of Nazareth, the true Messiah, who was both God and man.”

— De Arcanis, Bk. IV, Cap. XXIII (Frankfurt ed., 1672, p. 270)

Usuram & superabundantia accepisti, avarè proximos tuos calumniabaris, meique oblita es, ait Dominus Deus. Et post pauca, Congregatio, inquit, prophetarum ejus, in medio ejus, tanquam leo rugiens, capiens prædam. Animam comederunt, facultates & precium acceperunt, viduas ejus multiplicaverunt in medio ejus. Sacerdotes iniquam fecerunt legem meam, & prophanaverunt sanctuaria mea.

“‘Thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast greedily oppressed thy neighbours, and thou hast forgotten me, saith the Lord God.’ And a little after: ‘Her congregation of prophets,’ he says, ‘in the midst of her is like a roaring lion seizing prey; they have devoured souls, they have taken riches and honour, they have multiplied her widows in the midst thereof. Her priests have violated my law, and defiled my sanctuaries.'”

[Ezechiel 22:12–26, cited by Galatinus against the Jews]

— De Arcanis, Bk. IV, Cap. XXII (Frankfurt ed., 1672, p. 273)

Tantaque quoque eodem in populo vilitas fuisse dicitur, ut quis uno argenteo dato triginta sibi emeret Judæos. Quod nutu Dei factum esse, nemo est qui ambigat: ut qui Deum ac Dominum suum quasi vile mancipium vili precio vendiderant, viliori precio & ipsi venderentur.

“And so great also is said to have been the cheapness of that same people, that for one piece of silver given, a man could buy himself thirty Jews. No one can doubt that this was done by the will of God: that those who had sold their God and Lord as if He were a cheap slave for a low price should themselves be sold at an even lower price.”

— De Arcanis, Bk. IV, Cap. XXIV (Frankfurt ed., 1672, p. 265)

XIII. The Jews Chose Blindness and Perfidy

Alii denique Judæorum, nec fide, nec opere Christo adhærere volentes, in perfidia sibi pertinaciter permanendum, tanquam cæci elegerunt. Qui neq; tamen veritatem—vide quanta veritatis sit vis—omnino negare valuerunt.

“Yet other Jews finally, unwilling to adhere to Christ either by faith or by deed, chose—like blind men—to persist stubbornly in their perfidy. Yet they were not even able—see how great is the force of truth—to deny the truth altogether.”

— De Arcanis, Bk. I, Cap. III (Frankfurt ed., 1672, p. [Liber Primus])

Quanta sit juniorum Judæorum perfidia atque perversitas, qui ne veritatem fateantur, tot se contradictionibus implicant.

“How great is the perfidy and perversity of the younger Jews, who, lest they confess the truth, entangle themselves in so many contradictions.”

— De Arcanis, Bk. IV, Cap. XVII (Frankfurt ed., 1672, p. 245)

Quia scio, Judæos nequaquam ad hæc rationabiliter & rectè respondere posse: sunt enim à Deo insania, cæcitate ac stupore perculsi.

“Because I know that the Jews cannot answer these things either rationally or correctly, for they have been struck by God with madness, blindness, and stupor.”

— De Arcanis, Bk. VI (Frankfurt ed., 1672, p. [Liber Sextus])

Infatuavit enim Judæos—Deo permittente—diabolus, abstulit que ab eis sensum quoad veritatis intellectum. Et usque adeo quidem, ut in divinis scripturis minoris intelligentiæ sint, quam asini.

“For the devil—with God’s permission—has made fools of the Jews and has taken from them all understanding of the truth. And to such a degree, indeed, that they have less understanding of the divine scriptures than asses.”

— De Arcanis, Bk. IX, Cap. III (Frankfurt ed., 1672, p. 506)

Dixit R. Abba: Si fuerunt antiqui filii hominum, nos sumus asini.

“R. Abba said: If the ancients were sons of men, we are asses.”

[Galatinus quotes this Talmudic admission from the tractate Sekalim against the Jews]

— De Arcanis, Bk. IX, Cap. III (Frankfurt ed., 1672, p. 506)

Quare bene de ipsis Salvator c. 15. v. 14. Matthæi loquens, dixit: Cæci sunt, & duces cæcorum. Si cæcus cæco ducatum præstat, ambo in foveam cadunt.

“Therefore well did the Savior say of them, speaking in Matthew 15:14: ‘They are blind, and leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both fall into the pit.'”

— De Arcanis, Bk. IX, Cap. IV (Frankfurt ed., 1672, p. 510)

XIV. The Jews Received Two False Messiahs

Duos sibi unum post alterum falsos assumpserunt Messias.

“They took to themselves two false Messiahs, one after the other.”

— De Arcanis, Bk. IV, Cap. XXIV (Frankfurt ed., 1672, p. 261)

Venit igitur in nomine suo Barcozba mendacii filius, & ab eis receptus est. Et si ex ipso nomine saltem eum—si sensum habuissent—cognoscere certè debuerant.

“Barcozba, the son of falsehood, therefore came in his own name, and was received by them. And they surely ought to have known him—if they had had any sense—from his very name alone.”

— De Arcanis, Bk. IV, Cap. XXIV (Frankfurt ed., 1672, p. 261)

Quemadmodum tunc maior Hebræorum pars—decem scilicet tribus—dixerunt, Non est nobis pars in David, neque hærediitas in filio Issai: ita tempore Messiæ maior pars Judæorum dixit, Non habemus Regem, nisi Cæsarem. Sic & isti quia verum Messiam Dominum Iesum respuerunt, & duos falsos Messias receperunt, fuerunt in perpetuum & à Deo reprobati, & per Vespasianum & Titum Romanos Principes captivati.

“Just as then the greater part of the Hebrews—namely the ten tribes—said, ‘We have no part in David, nor inheritance in the son of Jesse,’ so at the time of the Messiah the greater part of the Jews said, ‘We have no king but Caesar.’ And thus these, because they rejected the true Messiah, the Lord Jesus, and received two false Messiahs, were in perpetuity both reprobated by God and taken captive by the Roman princes Vespasian and Titus.”

— De Arcanis, Bk. IX, Cap. VII (Frankfurt ed., 1672, p. 512)

XV. The Ceremonial Law Given Back to the Jews by the Devil

Deum per Romanos à Judæis sabbatum, circumcisionem, cæterasque cæremonias abstulisse. Ipsamque legem neque per seipsum, neque per Angelum, neque per alium quemvis sanctum virum, eis unquam restituit: sed diabolo procurante, sabbatum, circumcisionem, cæteraque ejus generis recuperaverunt.

“God through the Romans took the Sabbath, circumcision, and the other ceremonies from the Jews. And the Law itself He never restored to them—neither through Himself, nor through an Angel, nor through any other holy man: but through the agency of the devil they recovered the Sabbath, circumcision, and other things of that kind.”

— De Arcanis, Bk. XI, Cap. XIII (Frankfurt ed., 1672, p. [Liber Undecimus])

Nemo igitur ulterius nisi dæmoniacus, ea observare debet, quæ Deus ipse abstulit, & diabolus tam libens se visibiliter ingerendo, Judæis restituit.

“Therefore no one hereafter, except one who is possessed, ought to observe those things which God Himself took away and which the devil, so willingly thrusting himself visibly forward, restored to the Jews.”

— De Arcanis, Bk. XI, Cap. XIII (Frankfurt ed., 1672, p. [Liber Undecimus])

Quare satis manifestum est, quam grandis sit Judæorum stultitia, quàm ingens insania, quàm immensa vecordia, qui circumcisionem, & sabbatum, ac alia quæ Deus abstulit, & diabolus reddidit, hactenus servare non desistunt.

“Therefore it is sufficiently manifest how great is the folly of the Jews, how immense the madness, how boundless the senselessness, of those who to this day do not cease to observe circumcision, the Sabbath, and other things which God took away and the devil gave back.”

— De Arcanis, Bk. XII (Frankfurt ed., 1672, p. 594)

XVI. Only a Remnant of Jews to Be Saved

Non erant de Judæis nisi duo solummodo de sexcentis millibus salvandi.

“Of the Jews, only two out of six hundred thousand were to be saved.”

[Galatinus cites a Talmudic tradition, which parallels the two survivors—Joshua and Caleb—of the six hundred thousand who left Egypt]

— De Arcanis, Bk. IX, Cap. II (Frankfurt ed., 1672, p. 503)

Gentes non addendas fuisse Messiæ, ut Judæis servirent, ut Judæi ipsi delirantes garriunt, quinpotiùs ut salvarentur, & populus Dei efficerentur.

“The Gentiles were not to be added to the Messiah in order to serve the Jews—as the Jews themselves raving babble—but rather in order to be saved and to become the people of God.”

— De Arcanis, Bk. IX, Cap. XII (Frankfurt ed., 1672, p. 524)

XVII. The Jews‘ Delirium About Having a Scepter or Sanhedrin Somewhere

Sunt & alii ex Judæis, qui sceptrum suum alicubi esse delirantes ajunt, locum tamen nullum in quo sit, determinatè affirmant. GAL. Horum deliramenta etsi confutatione non egeant, contra illud tamen, præter ea quæ dicta sunt, Talmudisticam illam traditionem satis est adducere, quòd extra terram Ifrael Sanhedrin institui nequeant.

“There are also others among the Jews who, in their delirium, say that their scepter exists somewhere, yet cannot determine any specific place where it is. GAL. Although these ravings need no refutation, it is sufficient against them—besides what has already been said—to cite that Talmudic tradition: that a Sanhedrin cannot be constituted outside the land of Israel.”

— De Arcanis, Bk. VIII (Frankfurt ed., 1672, p. [Liber Octavus])

XVIII. The Bread of Lies Sweet to the Jews; Their Teaching of Falsehood

Quòd autem panis mendacii suavis ac sapidus sit Judæis, per id potissimum ostenditur, quod apud Ieremiam nono cap. v. 5. sic eis dicitur: Et veritatem non loquuntur, docuerunt linguam suam loqui mendacium.

“That the bread of lies is sweet and pleasing to the Jews is shown most especially by what is said to them in Jeremiah chapter 9, verse 5: ‘And they will not speak the truth; they have taught their tongue to speak lies.'”

— De Arcanis, Bk. VIII (Frankfurt ed., 1672, p. [Liber Octavus])

Sapidissimus est homini panis mendacii, & postea, vel denique implebitur os ejus calculo. Calculus hoc in loco, non est nisi pæna inferni æterna. Nam calculus cùm durus sit, mandi non potest, neque consumi, neque deglutiri, neque expui, cùm totum os plenum est: sic pæna inferni durissima quidem ac durabilis est, nullatenusque evadi potest, neque finiri, neque diminui.

“The bread of lies is most sweet to a man, but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel. This gravel in this place is nothing other than the eternal punishment of hell. For as gravel, being hard, cannot be chewed, nor consumed, nor swallowed, nor spat out when the whole mouth is full: so the punishment of hell is most severe and enduring, and can in no way be escaped, ended, or diminished.”

[Proverbs 20:17, cited and expounded by Galatinus with application to the Jews]

— De Arcanis, Bk. VIII (Frankfurt ed., 1672, p. [Liber Octavus])

XIX. On Proceeding Against Jews from Their Own Scriptures

Nihil ad confutandam Judæorum impudentiam tam validum, nihilque ad convincendam eorum nequitiam tam efficax, inveniri potest. Quid denique Christiano jucundius, quàm de manibus hostium gladium arripere, & caput infidelium, aut exemplo David, proprio mucrone abscindere, aut instar Judith, ipsorum pugione amputare?

“Nothing can be found so powerful to confute the impudence of the Jews, nothing so efficacious to convict them of their wickedness. And what is more pleasing to a Christian than to snatch the sword from the hands of enemies, and—after the example of David—to cut off the head of the infidels with their own blade, or, after the manner of Judith, to sever it with their own dagger?”

— De Arcanis, Bk. I, Cap. VII (Frankfurt ed., 1672, p. 26–27)

Constitutio Clementis V Pontificis Maximi sacrosancto approbante concilio, instituit, Talmudicosludæorum libros per fideles Hebraicam linguam callentes, in Latinum sermonem traducendos, atque Christianis publicè legendos esse.

“The constitution of Pope Clement V, with the approval of the holy council, established that the Talmudic books of the Jews should be translated into Latin by Catholics who know the Hebrew tongue, and should be read publicly by Christians.”

— De Arcanis, Bk. I, Cap. VII (Frankfurt ed., 1672, p. 26)

XX. Jews Destroyed Because They Betrayed and Denied Their God

Proditione enim prodiderunt me domus Israel, & domus Juda, ait Deus. Negaverunt Deum & dixerunt, non est ipse.

“For by treachery the house of Israel and the house of Judah have betrayed me, saith God. They denied God and said, he is not.”

[Jeremiah 5:11–12, cited by Galatinus in proof of the Jewish destruction by Rome]

— De Arcanis, Bk. IX, Cap. VIII (Frankfurt ed., 1672, p. [Liber Nonus])

Ex quibus omnibus manifestum est, eam ob rem Judæos per Romanos destruendos fuisse, quia Deum essent prodituri ac negaturi.

“From all this it is manifest that the Jews were to be destroyed by the Romans because they were going to betray and deny God.”

— De Arcanis, Bk. IX, Cap. VIII (Frankfurt ed., 1672, p. [Liber Nonus])

Quamvis & alia quoque fuerit perditionis, æternæque damnationis eorum causa, quia videlicet legem Messiæ recipere noluerunt.

“Although there was also another cause of their destruction and eternal damnation, namely that they refused to receive the law of the Messiah.”

— De Arcanis, Bk. IX, Cap. VIII (Frankfurt ed., 1672, p. [Liber Nonus])

XXI. Jews to Be Damned Eternally for Refusing the Messiah’s Law

Ideo certè Judæi destruendi, ac damnandi erant, quia legem Messiæ noluerunt recipere, nec penitus Messiam ipsum audire.

“The Jews were certainly to be destroyed and damned because they refused to receive the law of the Messiah and wholly refused to hear the Messiah Himself.”

— De Arcanis, Bk. IX, Cap. IX (Frankfurt ed., 1672, p. [Liber Nonus])

Ideo Judæos à Deo reprobandos, atque damnandos fuisse, quia Messiam ipsum verum Deum in monte olivarum docentem eos legem suam, audire noluerunt, legem ejus penitus respuentes.

“The Jews were therefore to be reprobated and damned by God because they refused to hear the Messiah Himself, the true God, as He taught them His law on the Mount of Olives, wholly rejecting His law.”

— De Arcanis, Bk. IX, Cap. IX (Frankfurt ed., 1672, p. 517–518)

XXII. Jews Reprobated in Perpetual Hatred of God for Blaspheming Jesus and Mary

Quod idcirco quoque reprobandi, atque in perpetuo Dei odio permansuros erant, quia Iesum verum Messiam, & Mariam matrem eius jugiter negaturi, ac blasphematuri essent.

“That for this reason also they were to be reprobated and to remain in God’s perpetual hatred, because they would perpetually deny Jesus the true Messiah and His mother Mary, and would blaspheme them.”

— De Arcanis, Bk. IX, Cap. X (chapter title; Ortona ed., 1516)

Error autem eorum erit, quia Iesum & Mariam dicent esse Deos alienos terræ, idololatrias. Et in hoc errabunt, me derelinquent, facientque irritum berith meum, id est foedus meum, hoc est Iesum meum & Mariam meam, ipsos blasphemantes, ac dicentes esse Deos alienos terræ, idololatrias.

“Their error will be that they will say that Jesus and Mary are foreign gods of the earth—that is, idolatries. And in this they will err: they will forsake me and make void my berith—that is, my covenant—meaning my Jesus and my Mary—blaspheming them and calling them foreign gods of the earth, that is, idolatries.”

[Expounding Deuteronomy 31–32, citing R. Nehemiah’s Iggereth ha-Sodoth]

— De Arcanis, Bk. IX, Cap. X (Ortona ed., 1516)

Idcirco ibidem immediate subjicitur: Et irascitur furor meus adversus eum in die illa, & derelinquam eum, & abscondam facies meas ab eo, & erit in devorationem. Quoniam Deus retribuit homini iuxta peccati eius mensuram.

“Therefore it is immediately added there: ‘And my wrath shall be kindled against him in that day, and I will forsake him, and I will hide my face from him, and he shall be devoured.’ For God repays a man according to the measure of his sin.”

— De Arcanis, Bk. IX, Cap. X (Ortona ed., 1516)

Faciam eos gentem stultam ab omnibus vocari, quæ sine fide, sine veritate, sine Deo est, & quæ Deum suum prodidit atque negavit.

“I will make them to be called a foolish nation by all—one that is without faith, without truth, without God, and that has betrayed and denied its own God.”

— De Arcanis, Bk. IX, Cap. X (Ortona ed., 1516)

XXIII. Jews Accuse Christians of Worshipping Three Gods; Their Denial of the Trinity

Inter cætera recentiores Iudæorum maximè nobis objiciunt, quòd cum Patre, Filium, & Spiritum sanctum nos confiteamur, tres Deos colere, pluralitatémque Deorum.

“Among other objections, the more recent Jews above all charge us that in confessing the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, we worship three Gods and a plurality of Deities.”

— De Arcanis, Bk. II, Cap. I (Frankfurt ed., 1672, p. 39–40)

Iudæi nostri sæculi mentis cæcitate perculsi, inde potissimum erroris causam sumunt, ut divinæ trinitatis mysterium negent, unde maximè ipsius notionem nancisci deberent.

“The Jews of our age, struck blind in mind, take from this above all the ground of their error, to deny the mystery of the divine Trinity—the very passage from which they ought most of all to derive knowledge of it.”

— De Arcanis, Bk. II, Cap. I (Frankfurt ed., 1672, p. 39–40)

Ex hoc enim ita Deum unum esse putant, ut ab eo personarum pluralitatem omnino excludant.

“For from this they think God to be so much one that they completely exclude from Him all plurality of persons.”

— De Arcanis, Bk. II, Cap. I (Frankfurt ed., 1672, p. 40)

XXIV. The Jewish Synagogue Is the Adulteress of Solomon’s Parable

Ex his igitur patet, quòd mulier adultera in præmissa Selomonisparabola est synagoga Judaica.

“From all this it is apparent that the adulteress in Solomon’s parable aforesaid is the Jewish Synagogue.”

— De Arcanis, Bk. VIII (Frankfurt ed., 1672, p. [Liber Octavus])

Quæ comedit, & comedere non desinit sapidissimum sibi panem illum. Et quasi tergens os suum, ac si nihil mali operata sit, erubescere nescit. Et hoc est quod ei apud Ierem. c. 3. v. 3. dicitur: Frons meretricis facta est tibi, renuisti erubescere.

“It eats and does not cease to eat what is to it the most savory bread. And as if wiping its mouth, as if it had done nothing evil, it knows not how to blush. And this is what is said to it in Jeremiah 3:3: ‘Thou hast a harlot’s forehead; thou wouldst not blush.'”

— De Arcanis, Bk. VIII (Frankfurt ed., 1672, p. [Liber Octavus])

XXV. Jewish Impiety Claims the Gentiles Will Serve the Jews

Judaica impietas ait hic, gentes in diebus Messiæ Deo addendas esse, non ut salventur, sed ut populo Iudaico serviant.

“Jewish impiety says here that the Gentiles are to be joined to God in the days of the Messiah, not in order to be saved, but in order to serve the Jewish people.”

— De Arcanis, Bk. IX, Cap. XII (Frankfurt ed., 1672, p. 523)

Ex his omnibus patet, Gentiles non addendos fuisse Messiæ, ut Judæis servirent, ut Judæi ipsi delirantes garriunt, quinpotiùs ut salvarentur, & populus Dei efficerentur.

“From all this it is apparent that the Gentiles were not to be joined to the Messiah in order to serve the Jews—as the Jews themselves rave and babble—but rather in order to be saved and to become the people of God.”

— De Arcanis, Bk. IX, Cap. XII (Frankfurt ed., 1672, p. 524)

XXVI. This Captivity as Punishment for the Death of Christ

Quia ad probandum Messiam jam venisse, nullum adversus Judaicam perfidiam tam efficax argumentum esse potest, quam per eorum scripturas ostendere, captivitatemhanc novissimam in qua sunt, in mortis Christi pœnam eis contigisse.

“For to prove that the Messiah has already come, no argument can be so efficacious against Jewish perfidy as to show from their own scriptures that this most recent captivity in which they dwell befell them as punishment for the death of Christ.”

— De Arcanis, Bk. IV, Cap. XXII (Frankfurt ed., 1672, p. [Liber Quartus])

Quod enim Judæi in primo Messiæ adventu, ob mortem quam ei illaturi erant, multis pœnis, multisque flagellis puniendi essent, hoc non modò Angelus Danieli retexit, sed plerique etiam prophetarum prædixerunt.

“That the Jews at the first coming of the Messiah were to be punished with many penalties and many scourges on account of the death they were about to inflict on Him, was revealed not only by the Angel to Daniel, but was also foretold by very many of the prophets.”

— De Arcanis, Bk. IV, Cap. XXII (Frankfurt ed., 1672, p. [Liber Quartus])

Ex his præmissis palam est, nullam aliam ob causam Judæos tam per Vespasianum & Titum, quam per Hadrianum tam multiplici ac sævissima animadversione percussos fuisse, nisi quia vero Messia reprobato, atque atroci morte peremto, falsos Messias receperunt.

“From all these premises it is clear that no other cause led to the Jews being punished so severely and with such manifold and savage retribution by Vespasian and Titus, as well as by Hadrian, except that having reprobated the true Messiah and put Him to a cruel death, they received false Messiahs.”

— De Arcanis, Bk. IV, Cap. XXIV (Frankfurt ed., 1672, p. 265–266)

XXVII. God Strikes the Jews with Madness, Blindness, and Stupor

Quia scio, Judæos nequaquam ad hæc rationabiliter & rectè respondere posse: sunt enim à Deo insania, cæcitate ac stupore perculsi.

“Because I know that the Jews cannot answer these things either rationally or correctly: for they have been struck by God with madness, blindness, and stupor.”

— De Arcanis, Bk. VI (Frankfurt ed., 1672, p. [Liber Sextus])

Generatione in qua filius David venturus est, sapientes magistri minorabuntur. Reliquorum vero oculi deficient in luctu & suspirio. Et angustriæ multæ, & sententiæ graves contra eos innovabuntur.

“In the generation in which the son of David is to come, the wise masters shall be diminished. And the eyes of the rest shall fail with grief and sighing. And many tribulations and heavy sentences shall be renewed against them.”

[Talmudic tradition from tractate Sanhedrin, cap. Helec, cited by Galatinus]

— De Arcanis, Bk. IX, Cap. II (Frankfurt ed., 1672, p. 505)

XXVIII. Talmudic Blasphemies Against Christ — The Spurious “Jesus Nazarenus”

In variis ipsius Talmud locis, Jesus iste Nazarenus de adultera ac polluta natus, idololatra, magus, legisque subversor, & tandem suspensus magno cum vilipendio memoratur: quamplurimi, ac penè innumerabiles propter historiæ ignorantiam, & fortè Rabbinorum recentionum pravitate decepti, turpia omnia illa de Jesu gloriosissimo Salvatore nostro dici putant.

“In various places in the Talmud, this Jesus of Nazareth is recalled as born of an adulteress and defiled woman, an idolater, a sorcerer, a subverter of the Law, and finally hanged in great infamy. Very many—indeed nearly innumerable—persons, misled by ignorance of the historical context and perhaps by the wickedness of the more recent Rabbis, think all those shameful things are said about Jesus our most glorious Savior.”

— De Arcanis, Bk. I, Cap. VII (Frankfurt ed., 1672, p. 25–26)

Hircanus ille Machabæus, sub quo fuit Jesus iste Nazarenus, de quo turpia omnia illa referuntur, ante Pontium Pilatum, sub quo Jesus Christus passus est, anno circiter centesimo decimo regnavit.

“That Maccabean Hyrcanus, under whom lived this Jesus of Nazareth about whom all those shameful things are reported, reigned approximately one hundred and ten years before Pontius Pilate, under whom Jesus Christ suffered.”

— De Arcanis, Bk. I, Cap. VII (Frankfurt ed., 1672, p. 26)

Hinc iuniorum Iudæorum inolevit error, qui dum antiquorum Theologizandi, ac philosophandi more ignorant, multa Talmudistici negotii arcana, in ludibria & blasphemias convertunt.

“From this has grown the error of the younger Jews, who, being ignorant of the manner in which the ancients theologized and philosophized, convert many secrets of Talmudic learning into mockeries and blasphemies.”

— De Arcanis, Bk. I, Cap. VII (Frankfurt ed., 1672, p. 23–24)

XXIX. The Miracles of Christ Cannot Be Denied; Jews Attribute Them to the Divine Name

Quamvis miracula Christum fecisse recentiores Iudæorum negare non possint, conati tamen sunt ea mendacio, atque blasphemia deturpare. Videntes enim ipsa talia fuisse, quæ facultatem omnem creatam excederent, non ea diabolicæ virtuti—ut patres eorum tribuere ausi sunt—sed divino nomini, quod Semhammephoras, id est nomen expositum nuncupant, tribuerunt.

“Although the more recent Jews cannot deny that Christ worked miracles, they have nonetheless attempted to vilify them with falsehood and blasphemy. For seeing that these miracles were such as to exceed every created power, they did not attribute them to diabolical virtue—as their fathers had dared to do—but to the divine Name, which they call Semhammephoras, that is, the Explicit Name.”

— De Arcanis, Bk. VIII (Frankfurt ed., 1672, p. [Liber Octavus])

Sed eos prorsus mentiri, atque falsiloquos esse, ex eo vel potissimum videri potest, quod apostoli, ceterique ejus discipuli, post mortem ipsius, non per Semhammephoras, id est per nomen Dei expositum, sed in nomine ipsius Iesu Nazareni, teste Talmud, miracula faciebant.

“But that they are utterly lying and speaking falsely is shown most especially by the fact that the apostles and the other disciples of Christ, after His death, worked miracles not through the Semhammephoras—that is, through the Explicit Name of God—but in the name of Jesus of Nazareth Himself, as the Talmud itself bears witness.”

— De Arcanis, Bk. VIII (Frankfurt ed., 1672, p. [Liber Octavus])

XXX. The Foolishness of Expecting a Temporal Messianic Kingdom

Obcæcata gens obstinato animo pergit, sua repugnante conscientia defendere, falsas interpretationes excogitare, Regnum externum Christi, & pompam splendidissimam, qua ingressurus sit ipsorum Messias, effingere.

“That blinded nation persists with an obstinate mind, against the protests of its own conscience, in defending its errors, devising false interpretations, and fabricating a temporal kingdom and a most splendid pomp with which their Messiah is to arrive.”

— De Arcanis, Preface to the Reader (Frankfurt ed., 1672, p. [Ad Lectorem])

Miseri Judæi expectant Messiæ adventum, non ad judicandum, sed ad eos redimendum venturi. Sed nimium certè falluntur.

“The wretched Jews await the coming of the Messiah, not to judge, but to come to redeem them. But they are certainly very greatly deceived.”

— De Arcanis, Bk. XII, Cap. I (Frankfurt ed., 1672, p. [Liber Duodecimus])

XXXI. The Just Destruction, Perpetual Captivity, and Eternal Reprobation of the Jews

Ex his præmissis satis luculenter apparet, quam iusta fuerit Judæorum destructio, dissipatio, ac perpetua captivatio, æternaque reprobatio.

“From all these premises it appears with sufficient clarity how just was the destruction, scattering, perpetual captivity, and eternal reprobation of the Jews.”

— De Arcanis, Bk. IX, Cap. X (Ortona ed., 1516)

Quia Moses pater eorum testimonio perhibente, semper adversus Deum ipsum, nedum contra veritatem contentiose egerunt.

“As their own father Moses himself bears witness, they have always acted contentiously against God Himself, let alone against the truth.”

— De Arcanis, Bk. IX, Cap. I (Ortona ed., 1516)

Quemadmodum igitur tempore Ieroboam in Israel & Judæos, Hebræi divisi sunt: ita in hebdomada septuagesima Danielis, Judæi ipsi divisi sunt in perfidos Judæos, & veros Christianos.

“Just as in the time of Jeroboam the Hebrews were divided into Israel and the Judeans, so in the seventieth week of Daniel the Jews themselves were divided into perfidious Jews and true Christians.”

— De Arcanis, Bk. IX, Cap. VII (Frankfurt ed., 1672, p. 511)

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