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

that I should inscribe these things to your most illustrious and famous name, not only did that reason move me, that I acknowledge myself and all my possessions to be yours by every best right: but also because the subject of this treatise urged me to do this very thing. For when, following the lead of the Holy Scriptures, I was establishing a comparison between the greatest men, namely Joseph and Samson, and our Lord Jesus Christ (not describing their lives παραλλήλοις as parallels to those of Christ, but representing them as ἐπαλλήλοις overlapping, or even ὑπαλλήλοις subordinate to him), I thought that I would not be acting in any way inconsistent with the position God has attributed to you if I were to dedicate and consecrate to you—magnificent men, most holy magistrates, most prudent governors of the Republic, and sincere worshippers of Christ, my honored Lords—those things that I was about to say regarding Joseph, who once administered all of Egypt, regarding Samson, the wondrous deliverer of God’s Church, and regarding Jesus Christ himself, the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. I proceed no further in speaking: nor do I intend to equate you with either that Joseph or Samson.