Tractatus de imposturis et ceremoniis Iudaeorum nostri temporis

in the year 200, whose works survive to this day. At the same time, Origen and Africanus exposed the fables, lies, deceits, and impostures of the Hebrews. Eusebius Pamphilius in his works most often mentions the bitter and irreconcilable hatred of the Jews toward Christians, and other wicked deeds of the same. Solemennus, led by Christ from the darkness of Jewish ceremonies into the light of the Gospel, in that book which was given the name Triphimi, explains why this stubborn and obstinate race is recalled with such difficulty from their execrable and detestable errors to a sounder mind and purer religion. And, to sum the matter up briefly, all the holy fathers and faithful heralds of the sincere and orthodox doctrine have striven for this above all: to bring the blinded Jews out of the Egyptian darkness into which they are plunged into the true light, attacking their dogmas as horrendous blasphemies. Among these, the leaders were Lactantius, Athanasius, Hilary, Cyril, Bishop of Jerusalem, Basil, Gregory of Nazianzus, Epiphanius, Ambrose, Augustine, Chrysostom, and many others whose works are at hand. But that there be no need for testimonies, since the dire and horrendous calumnies and blasphemies of the Jews are condemned by the judgment and reckoning of the entire Christian world, I will not, however, be loath to add to the former the names of certain learned men who eventually gave themselves to Christ the Savior: since they also detested their own impiety not without the greatest grief of heart, and faithfully revealed the arts and deceits of the Talmudists: among whom are Jerome, Alfonso, John, Isaac of Cologne, and several others. Rabbi Samuel, when he was converted from the circumcised to the Son of God, published a book written by himself in the Arabic language in the year 1300 (which today is circulated rendered into Latin), in which, having gravely rebuked the Talmudists, he explodes and rejects their impious opinion, which they conceived through mental error, concerning the coming of the Messiah who has already long been exhibited to His elect. To be commended for the same reason is Nicholas of Lyra, who was a man...