Preface / To the highly-praiseworthy

[nus] The completion of the word "unus" (one) from the previous page's catchword.
lovely celebration of your Highly Honored Brotherhood, and what a gracious love of neighbor will be found among you, in which no hatred, envy, or other such untrustworthiness shall intrude, but rather all things are shared in common for the worthy. What mouth will be able to express the sweetness of such gracious love, which is planted by God within you and returns again to GOD, from whom it came and proceeded? Truly, it will burn and shine again, even into its eternity.

Indeed, with us humans—as we remain in our inherited blindness and malice, and have transformed these into our very nature—it is said:
Romans 3, v. 4

All men are liars, and when we read our own human histories written down, we ourselves say: 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nec nimis incredulum esse oportet" and when we wish to know a matter with the utmost precision, the Comedian A common historical reference to the Roman playwright Plautus.
Plautus.

teaches us: An eyewitness is worth more than— original Latin: "Plus valet ocularis testis u-". The quote "An eyewitness is worth more than ten who have only heard" is completed on the following page.