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

I do not speak: for I have hitherto abhorred this kind of work, even though many years ago, learned, pious, and authoritative men who loved us did not fail, if not to compel, then to stir me to this through the opportunity, not dissemblingly. But why it has now come to my mind, as if having changed my counsel, to turn myself to that which I had always previously avoided, and to begin, by this little writing which I offer to you, to undergo the dangerous gamble of judgments at this late time: perhaps it would be my duty to explain to you. But your marvelous humanity, which is clear to all, prevents me from doing so: or rather, to be brief, the singular candor of your hearts, which I have experienced, reminds and persuades me. Therefore, because I have descended to this more by a certain occasion than led by my own will (as I have truthfully and without pretense, according to my custom, professed to my listeners, your students in letters), I do not doubt at all that this deed of ours will not be disapproved of by you. For since what I write here contains nothing alien to my profession, and I am not offended by any prolixity,