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This book contains more or less 613 precepts, to the norm of which they say all the manners and actions of those who desire to attain eternal life must be directed. And therefore those are considered the elite who are the most rigid observers of all. But if you say they are sprung from the seed of Judas Iscariot, the betrayer of Christ, and for that reason have obtained the name of their parent, I would not disagree; for they have not departed even in the slightest from his character, seeing that they breathe and procure nothing but the slaughter, ruin, and destruction of Christians.
If you wish to know more deeply the primary origin of the Talmud, read Victor Carcumensis and Antonius Malgarita, learned men who, having been freed from the snares of Satan, dedicated themselves to Christ the Savior. Antonius exclaims in these very words: "Alas," he says, "can the Christian assembly endure the unheard-of insults and blasphemies with which they lacerate Christ their redeemer and His saints, which my mind even shudders to recount?" Victor, drawing sighs from the bottom of his heart, says: "They observe the inventions of Satan severely and rigidly, but they count the admonitions of the prophets as worthless." But let us concede that this name was derived from Judah, the son of the Patriarch Jacob, as a parent; nevertheless, it has been pronounced that they would be scattered into all parts of the world, and that this generation would not perish before all the things that Christ predicted in the 21st chapter of Luke had reached their end. For some, moved by these words, strive to affirm that they should therefore be tolerated among Christians, but they are deceived: for the sense of the words does not look to the entire race of Jews; rather, it appears from this by what name they have been rejected by the Lord, namely, because they rejected the grace offered to every believer in Christ. These remnants, therefore, remain like dregs so that they may provide us an example and document of the divine wrath and fury; and it is not to be asserted that, just because they are Jews, they should be granted a place to dwell among Christians. These things, however, are brought forward here