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Agrippa von Nettesheim, Heinrich Cornelius · 1533

He cites the Apostle impertinently.
man does not perceive the things that are of the spirit of God.
VIII.
False argumentation.
Whence it is provided that teachers and doctors are to be established in diverse places, who teach the studies of letters and liberal arts.
IX.
False assumption.
By these arts, the Holy Scripture is declared and heresies are confounded.
X.
False application.
Whence the Wise Man says: Those who elucidate me will have eternal life.
XI.
Malicious dissimulation.
It does not therefore appear how knowing nothing is the happiest life, when the Apostle says: He who is ignorant will be ignored. And the Lord says: Therefore my people have been led captive, because they did not have knowledge.
Impudent lie.
¶ Another assertion which speaks of the inventors of the sciences in the same declamation says.