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1. Van der Hooght charges me with great and silly onwetenheid ignorance. page 7. section 14.
Onkunde Lack of knowledge. p. 7. section 15. especially in the hebreeuwsche tale Hebrew language. p. 16. VII. Objection 1. Answer 1.
Onverdragelijke meesterlijkheid unbearable masterfulness or arrogance in my proposal to the Church Council. p. 8. section 3.
That I sin against the rules of a disputant one who engages in formal debate, which can be learned well enough from Burgersdyks Logica a famous logic textbook by Franco Burgersdijk. p. 9. section 2.
"The good man," he says, "does not know." p. 9. section 3.
That I stumble against the rules of the Language. p. 10. section 7. and that comes through my
Onbedrevenheid in den grondtext unskillfulness in the original text. p. 11. Also I am
sober theologizeerende poorly or meagerly theologizing. page 1. Answer 3. Because I
have no correct conception of the sentiment of the gereformeerde Kerk Reformed Church. p. 12. Answer.
"Our Lord Doctor," you say, "loses much of his respect here." p. 16. VI. Objection 1. Answer 1.
"Therefore you were ashamed in your best part, that I carried the title of Doctor of Theology in the Reformed Church."
And that, among other things, because I speak very stupidly. p. 16. VII. Objection 2. Answer 2.
You further attribute to me a blind sight. page 18. Answer 6.
My labor you call wroeten rooting or grubbing around, page 13. section 15; swesen unclear, likely meaning sweating or toiling, page 19. section 11; and making bravados. p. 18. section 19.
And when I say that no one will easily refute a proof that I hold for certain, that is for you as much as waving the blood-flag a signal of war or a call to battle. page 15. Answer 5.
2. That I am a beschimper van onse Religie mocker of our religion (as if I were of another religion), of the Lord Jesus and his Apostles. page 3. May God preserve me from that!