Revelation of Divine Majesty

...who was regarded more as a miracle wonder of the world because of his art and endurance. But where are our master builders, who can hardly tear down the ancient walls and cannot rebuild the like? Where does one find now a Noah in shipbuilding, a Solomon in masonry, a Bezalel in all skillful work, to prepare the Ark, Temple, Tabernacle, and priestly garments in weight, number, and measure? Indeed, not a single art exists anymore about which one might not say: there is a deficiency. Yet the arts that proceed from the wisdom of God are all perfect, since His works were all found very good and therefore without flaw in His gracious sight.

Since this Opus Work of twenty-four books on the first chapter of the First Book of Moses The Book of Genesis provides sufficient guidance and support to bring forth again both eternal and created wisdom, as far as both may have been neglected until now, according to the footsteps of the Patriarchs, Prophets, and Apostles, and to establish them in the German Israel (as the author of the work says): I have not disregarded a considerable amount of money to apply it for the benefit of the lovers of this study, to purchase the transumptum manuscriptum handwritten copy and to publish it. This is done in the total confidence that it will, first and foremost, reveal the "abomination of desolation" to the learned members of the Roman Antichrist more clearly and sharply than perhaps any writer has provided until now, and will completely convict them therein. It will also place the ungodly life of the godless before their eyes, bring it to their hearts, and move them to improvement. To the pious and good-hearted, however, it will give the spurs to proceed better and more bravely in their Christian race, "because he who is righteous will be justified still" original: "quia iustus iustificabitur adhuc". And here the Papacy Papatus must certainly hear, with the conviction of its conscience, how the Supper of the Lord has been mutilated, a terrible sacrificial mass invented from it, and dead saints and unholy people set up as gods and idols over the sea, over the fruits of the field, over cattle and diseases, over fortune and misfortune, alongside the only...