Jesus Nazaraeus, sive explicatio loci in sancto D.N. Jesu Christi Evangelio secundum Matthaeum cap. 2. v. 23. Nazaraeus vocabitur

nor does this method of ours of disputing have any kinship with contention and altercation: I trust that it will also be welcome to you, men who are most loving of peace. I ask of you greatly that you may do so, for your benevolence toward me, and because you are all more desirous of truth than of contention. I wished for this little book of ours to have the name Jesus the Nazarene, because the passage of Scripture in the explanation of which it is engaged declares it most holily, and our own little writing chants the praises of this same Jesus the Nazarene, as the circumstance of the place seemed to provide. For it did not seem worthwhile to wander more widely than the method of familiar teaching and the nature of the subject allows. In sum, I have taken care that I should remember that this discourse was not undertaken regarding the whole category of the praises of Christ (which, having been begun by us in another writing, God will perhaps someday allow us to bring to an end), but that I had proposed something special and particular here. Nor did I have no regard for the fact that I am treating these things in a school among learned youths, not in the assembly of the Church among men of all ranks. But in order that