Thesium de vita aeterna et eius haeredibus decades X

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TEN DECADES.
Concerning which, several learned young men,
Candidates of Sacred Theology, in the Theological
Disputations of the Academy of Basel, for the sake of
exercise original: "γυμνασίας χάριν", will respond in this
year 1580:
By the author and presiding officer,
JOHANN JAKOB GRYNAEUS, Public Professor of
Sacred Theology in the School of Basel.

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Gregory of Nazianzus:
When God grants, envy avails nothing.
And when He does not grant, effort avails nothing. original: "Θεῦ Διδόντος οὐδὲν ἰσχύει φθόνος. Καὶ μὴ διδόντος οὐδὲν ἰσχύει πόνος."