Treatise on the Free Investigation of the Canon

nyfius, which has found much applause until now. I also have the heart to prophesy that it will no longer maintain the same prestige that it sought to give itself through exceptional arrogance. You likely do not know, most worthy patron, that I have already been struck more than once with the orthodox ban and anathema original: "Anathema"; a formal curse or excommunication by a church authority; that they even tell students original: "Studiofis"; likely a transcription of "Studiosis," meaning university students quite well-meaningly that I will come to a terrifying end—I know not under which trumpet blast. I do not fear such old prophetic formulas at all, even if they are regarded by the simple-minded almost as miraculous gifts original: "Wundergaben", concerning which I do not hold the old church opinion original: "Kirchenmeinung" either. However, frivolous people, who lightheadedly fit themselves into such affected prophetic garb and sheep's clothing original: "Schaafspelze", make it their business through their incessant mockery not only to despise that presumed infallibility, but also—in a very natural connection—to accidentally cause much harm to the certain and serious doctrine of religion original: "Religion" among others to whom they recount such interviews.