Jesus Nazaraeus, sive explicatio loci in sancto D.N. Jesu Christi Evangelio secundum Matthaeum cap. 2. v. 23. Nazaraeus vocabitur

and delight the ears with babbling, but to confirm consciences by teaching true, certain, and useful things. He was indeed wise in the past who considered no learning to be of value unless it aided the discipline of a blessed life. Why then should we not also hold that no explanation of the Scriptures and no Theology exists unless it both teaches faith and aids the discipline of a holy life, the first and chief part of which is the denial of ourselves? It is certain that those who turn away from this are both listeners with itching ears and Teachers who serve the theater and capture the applause of the auditorium. Nor do I love myself so much that I think I have reached such a perfection of virtue in teaching, or that I have attained such a faculty in this area that it presents something extraordinary. In this mediocrity of my talent, I feel within myself, by the singular grace of the one God, that I do not unsuccessfully follow the footsteps of pious and learned men: and that by their example I so engage in the reading and narration of the Prophetic and Apostolic books that the fruits of our labor are not absent in the Church. Concerning the publication of books