MOSES, THE GOD OF AARON,

The title refers to Exodus 4:16, where God tells Moses he will be as a "God" to his brother Aaron the priest. In 18th-century political theory, this was a common metaphor used to argue that the civil ruler (the "Moses" figure) holds authority over the religious establishment (the "Aaron" figure).

THE POWER

THE DUTY

OF PRINCES

IN SACRED MATTERS,

the canonical Scripture alone

ALBERT RIPERUS

original: "I. C." for Juris Consultus. This indicates the author was a person learned in the law, likely a lawyer or legal academic.

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Daventria is the Latin name for Deventer, a city in the Netherlands that was a significant center for publishing and humanistic study.

The original text uses an older style of Roman numerals (clɔ Iɔ for 1000 and 500) to denote the date.