The Publisher

Master they followed, with the testimony of God, who said: This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; Hear Him. A reference to the Transfiguration of Jesus described in Matthew 17:5.

Many might perhaps judge from this that I were an enemy of permissible Scholarship Geleerdheden: formal education or academic learning and Studies, and that I, like many in these days, would reject everything that could serve to guide one toward true wisdom and the knowledge of God; but I am not conscious of any such feeling. I judge that the wisdom of the learned Apostle to the Gentiles The Apostle Paul, who was instructed by Gamaliel A celebrated doctor of Jewish law and teacher of Paul, mentioned in Acts 22:3, can be beneficial to further proclaim the great virtues of God—provided that one, like him, considers that first-established learning (which rests in the intellect and not in the Soul) as nothing but foolishness when compared to the latter referring to the spiritual wisdom mentioned previously.

The most necessary part of his knowledge wetenſchap: here meaning a branch of learning or a state of knowing, and that which he sought after most, was to know Jesus Christ among his people, and him crucified: and this ought to be ours as well, for where the most is at stake, there also should the most be sought; for the Father seeks such. A reference to John 4:23, "the Father seeks such to worship Him."

You shall find in this little Treatise Tractaatje: a small book or pamphlet, often on a religious subject such