Tractatus de imposturis et ceremoniis Iudaeorum nostri temporis

ham, are they all children; that is, not the children of the flesh are the children of God, but those who are children of the promise are counted in the seed." From these things, therefore, it is manifest what he felt about the Israelites, whom he names thieves, idolaters, adulterers, hypocrites, etc.

In Psalm 59, the prophet says: "Because of the sin of their mouth, because of the word of their lips: and let them be captured because of their pride, and because of their cursing and their lie which they tell. Consume them in fury, consume them, and let them not be, etc." That the Psalmist, under the persona of Christ, erupted into this exclamation against the circumcised race is not ambiguous; for it is apparent to the studious and attentive reader. If, therefore, you refuse to place faith in me and others, do not, I pray, rebel against the Holy Spirit, who poured forth these oracles through His servant. Although there are many most bitter enemies who wage an immortal war against the blessed seed of the woman on behalf of the seed of the serpent, it is nevertheless certain that the Thalmudists yield to none in stubbornness, obstinacy, and the desire for vengeance. For they are inflamed with such an immense and cruel hatred toward Christ that they daily pray for whatever tortures and torments are decreed for those addicted to eternal damnation. They certainly surpass the Mahometists in dishonesty and impiety, who, it is established, are willing to pour out their lives for their Mahomet, to whom they attribute divine honors, and to cast every kind of scoff and insult upon the God of the Christians. That He is indeed the one, they do not doubt, having declared His power and divinity through miracles and prodigies; but to persuade them that He is the true and only-begotten Son of God who atoned for our sins and crimes by His own death, this is the work, this is the labor. But the Thalmudists not only despise and repudiate the writings of the Apostles, but have also invented some books filled with atrocious insults, reproaches, and curses