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Marti, Benedikt dit Aretius · 1574

majesty of his writings.
Kind of life.
His kind of life was chaste and most holy in all things, as he himself confesses, according to the most exquisite sect of the law, Acts 22. Furthermore, to the Philippians in the third, and to the Galatians in the first, he usurps great virtues for himself, namely, diligence in defending ancestral traditions, erudition in the law, zeal toward God, felicity in learning, by which he even surpassed many contemporaries, the most excellent kind of sect. For the Pharisees were more tolerable than the rest.
Before his conversion
Along with these virtues, there also clung to him not a disease of the mind, but rather a disease and vice of the sect, namely that he persecuted the Church of God, Acts 9 and 22. This way, he says, I persecuted even unto death, binding and delivering into prisons, as well men, as