It had recently appeared in Frankfort under the title: The Eye Mirror, and assailed with crushing severity those who blamed him for opposing the proposal to destroy the books of the Jews.
"What in the world do we care about the writings of the Hebrews ?" the deep bass voice of Hans von Obernitz here interrupted the conversation.
"A new Latin manuscript--that I value! But has this noble fragment of Tacitus created half as much stir as this miserable dispute ?" "There is more at stake," said Lienhard Groland positively.

"The Jewish writings merely serve as a pretext for the Cologne inquisitors to attack the great Reuchlin.

He, the most profound and keenest student of the noble Greek tongue, who also forced the venerable language in which the Old Testament speaks to discourse to us Germans--" "The Hebrew!" cried Hans von Obernitz impatiently, passing his napkin over his thick moustache; "what do we want of it?
How can a sagacious man plunge into such annoyances on its account ?" "Because the excess of liberty which you gentlemen grant to the human intellect blinds him," observed the abbot.

"His learning would throw the doors wide open to heresy.

The Scriptures are true.