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On them Tungern and Kollin, whom you mention, rely.
In the original Hebrew text they will be given up to every one who wishes to seek an interpretation----" "Then a new bridge will be built for truth," declared the little Thuringian with flashing eyes. "The Cologne theologians hold a different opinion," replied the abbot. "Because the Grand Inquisitor and his followers--Tungern, Kollin, and whatever the rest may be called--are concerned about some thing very different from the noblest daughter of Heaven," said Lienhard Groland, and the other gentlemen assented.
"You yourself, my lord abbot, admitted to me on the ride here that it angered you, too, to see the Cologne Dominicans pursue the noble scholar 'with such fierce hatred and bitter stings.'"-- [Virgil, Aeneid, xi.
837.] "Because conflict between Christians always gives me pain," replied the abbot. But here Dr.Eberbach impetuously broke in upon the conversation: "For the sake of a fair woman Ilion suffered unspeakable tortures. But to us a single song of Homer is worth more than all these Hebrew writings.
And yet a Trojan war of the intellect has been kindled concerning them.
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