Verklaring van de evangelische parabolen

writings speak; and for many years and centuries to come, they shall speak.

Allow me to request that Your Reverence be pleased to accept the dedication of the translation of this, your own work, and the clarifications added to it. May you receive the labor I have spent on this as a token of the high regard I hold for everything that has come from Your Reverence’s hand.

I conclude with a congratulation to Your Reverence on the pleasure that the good hand of God allows you to experience in your advancing years, after Your Reverence has also had a share in various trials regarding your person and house. I refer especially to the untimely taking away of your beloved and learned son HORATIUS, in the very first emergence of the bloom of his years, who gave the expectation of becoming a great man in God’s Church. That hope now lives again and is already largely fulfilled in your son and namesake, CAMPEGIUS. He was recently promoted with much praise to

D E D I C A T I O N

the ministry of Holy Theology, after holding a public disputation original: "Geschilverhandeling" regarding the face and the back parts of God, from Exodus 33. This was a subject as wisely chosen as it was learnedly labored upon, and also manfully and gloriously defended, according to reports that have come to us from those who were eye- and ear-witnesses to it. I hope and wish that this son, within a short time, may be promoted to a position worthy of his learning and abilities. May Your Reverence, together with your dear spouse, rejoice and delight in this for many years to come. Meanwhile, may Your Reverence not lack the desire or strength to complete your commenced major work on the prophecy of Isaiah, and to hand it over to posterity (and may God give even more other works!).

Finally, it is my heartfelt soul's wish that the Great Shepherd and Overseer of the Church will allow you one day to receive the reward of grace for your labor. May He say to you, as to the servant who, having received five talents,

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