To the Reader.

...will depends on the understanding, it follows that they hesitate in their wills just as much as they do in their opinions, and they are altogether at odds with themselves. Therefore, they likewise see two versions of Thebes; for by Thebes—which was the dwelling and place of retreat for Pentheus—the goals original: "ends" of our actions are represented.

Hence it happens that they do not know which way to turn. Being uncertain and wavering regarding the most important matters, they are tossed about by sudden impulses of the mind in every specific situation. I believe that those who will not accept original: "acquiesce in" what has been handed down to us in the Scriptures and by Christian tradition concerning spirits, but instead insist on meddling by setting up other hypotheses through their own fallible original: "frail" reason to explain facts commonly attributed to spirits, will find their judgment so perplexed and brought into such a labyrinth upon reading what is written here. This will be true even if they set aside what I personally claim from my...