Preface / To the Most Praiseworthy

...lovely fellowship German: Begehunge. This implies a communal gathering or a way of living together. of your highly honored Brotherhood, and what a gracious love of neighbor will be among you, among whom no hatred, envy, or other such unfaithful behaviors German: unvertrewligkeiten. Refers to acts of bad faith or social discord. run through; but rather everything is shared for the worthy. Which mouth will be able to speak the sweetness of such gracious love, which has been planted in you by God, and returns again to God from whom it came and proceeded? Truly, it will burn and shine again, even into its eternity. Indeed, for us humans—as we exist in our inherited blindness and malice, and have turned the same into a nature within ourselves b Romans 3:4. The verse states: "Let God be true, and every human being a liar."—it is said: All men are liars. And when we read our own human history described, we say ourselves: In historical matters, one ought to be neither too credulous nor too incredulous original Latin: In historicis nec nimis credulum nec nimis incredulum esse oportet; and when we wish to know a deed with the greatest certainty, the Plautus. Titus Maccius Plautus (c. 254–184 BC), a Roman playwright known for his comedies. Comic Poet A reference to Plautus. teaches us: An eyewitness is worth more than... original Latin: Plus valet ocularis testis... The sentence is incomplete here and continues on the following page.