Menasseh ben Israel — Even yeqarah / Piedra gloriosa o de la estatua de Nebuchadnesar (1655)

EPISTLE

infallibility of these Prophecies, and that this Statue in the 4 metals represented them. The doubt consists only in which one is the fifth; we interpret this in one way, others in another. I, in truth, do not make a profession in my writings of opposing anyone; I candidly refer to what our opinion is. This is what I offer, my Lord, and consecrate to the kindness of Your Majesty, whom I beseech to take from this, with your sublime intellect, what seems best to you, and leave the rest for he who might have a different taste, for I make it a matter of ordi-