Tractatus de imposturis et ceremoniis Iudaeorum nostri temporis

in his commentaries who convicts the Hebrews of apostasy and idolatry with the strongest arguments, in the year of Christ 1315. Paul of Burgos accomplished the same task, to whom also, almost suffocated by the shadows and darkness of the underworld, the light of the Gospel shone. Victor Carcumensis, easily the prince of the Talmudists, receiving holy baptism under the Bishop of Cologne, having agitated against the stubbornness and hardness of mind of the Jews, extolled his prince with wondrous praises for having driven them from his jurisdiction. Anthonius Malgaritha, after he devoted himself to Christ at Wasserburg, composed a series of Jewish ceremonies, prayers, blasphemies, and crimes, while teaching the Sacred language at Augsburg in the year 1530. But lest I be longer than necessary, I am not here going to recount the rest who, having shaken off the yoke of Satan, have busied themselves in the same type of writing. For many more appear daily, such as Joseph Reimond with his three brothers, Christopher Mandel of Offen, etc., who, acknowledging their salvation and redemption to the only-begotten Son of God, have keenly pursued the impious errors of His adversaries. But I do not think anyone doubts how much faith should be attributed to each of these whom I have recounted in this catalog, since, having condemned the circumcision of the foreskin, they have been washed from the filth of their sins in the most holy laver of regeneration. From the Christian flock, indeed, Johannes Reuchlin, Paul Ricius, and Sebastian Münster, men most celebrated for their learning and piety, having unraveled the trifles and nonsense of the Rabbis and bringing their tricks and incantations into the light, showed themselves to be the most faithful and keenest assertors and defenders of the Evangelical doctrine. But among those who have inveighed against the Jews in German, no one has attacked them more vehemently than that man of holy and honorable memory, Doctor Martin Luther. He conducted and handled this cause with as much gravity, vehemence, prudence, and contention of spirit as anyone could possibly handle it. For since that best of men had to fight most keenly for Christ against Satan, the father of error and lying, and his progeny, the impulse...