Preface.

...against the sworn enemies of truth and piety original: veritatis & pietatis. At such a time, the matter does not allow itself to be handled with soft hands. The sweetest dove of Christ and most gentle bride—whose lips otherwise drip with honeycomb original: fauum stillant; an allusion to the Song of Solomon 4:11, describing the speech of the Church., and under whose tongue are honey and milk—then becomes as terrifying as an army with banners, and she is like the tower of David built for an armory, from which hang a thousand shields, all the bucklers of the mighty. Then a noble contest is to be seen. Then one must fight for the faith once delivered to the saints original: fide semel sanctis tradita; a reference to the Epistle of Jude 1:3.; nor should we, through our own negligence original: impelliam; likely a transcription variant for imperitiam, meaning inexperience or neglect., permit even a syllable or a jot of it to be corrupted. Then the heralds of peace become armored soldiers, the strongest of athletes original: pancratiastae; referring to the "pancratiasts" or all-around combatants of ancient Greek games, here used as a metaphor for spiritual fighters., no less than those sixty heroes who stood around the bed of Solomon, all clutching swords, trained in the wars of Jehovah original: Iehouae. Yet even in these battles, the spirit of Christian gentleness must no less shine forth. etc. in the place cited, page 914.

Just as it is now sufficiently clear from all of this that an upright teacher—however much he strives for moderation moderation The practice of restraint and avoidance of extremes in theological debate.—nonetheless cannot at times refrain from resisting encroaching errors; so everyone will also recognize from this how necessary it is that the studying youth at universities be guided toward this; especially when it happens that one simultaneously