Expositio vera harum imaginum olim Nurenbergae repertarum ex fundatissimo verae magiae Vaticinio deducta

in magical expositions—that such a Pope was a fox at heart, even if he gave fair words to God. He prays, he fasts, and he became spiritual in his outward appearance, but behind his back, he was full of cunning and wickedness, as magic reason demonstrates: while he looks toward God with his front, he looks toward the fox with his back. For this reason, the hand of God from the tree does not bless him, namely, according to his conscience. The Pope, however, accepts it as if it were very useful to him, suspecting nothing—that the fox was hidden from the back, to be seen by the hand of God. But God, who knows his heart and all things, adjusts the blessing according to his prayer and devotion, so that it may be known that the ecclesiastical state will be holy only in its mouth and knees, and in its priestly vestments, ornaments, and the appearance of dignity, but the rest will be a fox. For in magical expositions, such vestments and ornaments are the vulpium of the foxes through the fox, and it signifies nothing other than the works of foxes. For Christ neither ordained this kind of clothing for his own, nor took it for his own use, but rather, since they are compared to graves of liars, they are most ornate on the outside, but inside they exist full of putrid and stinking corpses. The banner, however, erected behind the Pope, denotes secular powers and magistracies, which none of the Apostles ever carried. By this very thing, it is prefigured to us that the Pope will now be so rich and powerful that he will no longer need the fox, for he usurps power and dominion over two Kingdoms: namely, into the Kingdom of God, by speaking to God—