Apodeixis, Antichristianismi

age, etc. And a little later: Not one Naboth has been killed as a poor man; every day he is laid low, every day the poor man is killed. Not dissimilar is what someone has left written, that every age has its Scribes, Pharisees, Herods, and Pilates. This sentiment is affirmed by that serious prayer of the Apostolic college, which, having heard the most severe threats of the priests and elders, they poured forth with one accord to God, the creator of heaven and earth, most appropriately using and indeed interpreting the words of the second Psalm, and accommodating them to the present matter, as Luke narrates in the 4th chapter of the Apostolic history. Following a similar method, Jerome, in the preface to the book of Didymus on the Holy Spirit, calls the Roman Presbyters a senate of Pharisees. And conversely, in Matthew chapter 10, he calls the Clerics of the Jews Pharisees. And it does not seem dissimilar that he interprets Rome as Babylon in some places. There is therefore no reason to doubt that a diligent reading of historical narratives will bring the greatest utility to those who have brought prudence along with piety to it. Furthermore, the genuine use of this seems to be that, setting aside that which is temporary, that which is perpetual is taken; that is, omitting circumstances such as places, times, and persons (which almost always have something peculiar), that which is common and can be attributed to all not inappropriately is considered and retained. Briefly, in the narratives of past things, the seeker of truth and piety will contemplate the present state as if in a mirror.