For a year now I have been asking if Jesus founded a Democracy, and, why was there attempt to throw Jesus off a cliff after he read a passage in the Torah about the Jubilee.

Johanne d’Arc took the name John more then likely after John the Baptist who is considered a Jewish Prophet and Messenger. John was fill with the Holy Spirit while in his mother’s womb, till the moment of his death. Johanne had a cote of arms made, and a banner. The banner showed Jesus holding a lily.

In the movie ‘The Messenger’ we find Johanne running with wolves. In the movie Pan’s Labyrinth we see scenes that rival The Inquisition. My ancestor appears to have been against the Inquisition, and shields Erasmus from the Inquisitor of Holland. However, after his book Confessionalses was published, it was declared heretical because it offered a second chance for those who had been excommunicated – if they made an honest confession. History then records Rosemondt was the Inquisitor that judged three famous Protestant Martyes. If true, I believe this was his test.

I am just the messenger. I have no price, for I died and saw God. I will die again. My only concern is that The Story and The Message will go with me, never to heard again. There is only so much true information in the world. God’s Truth is a delicate lily. But, then it is a terrible sword.

Jon The Messenger

Various testimonies have come down to us by people who saw the standard and by others who only heard something about it. Generally these descriptions are short. Because of this there is some confusion between the large and small standard.
Dunois says that it “was white, with the image of Our Lord holding a lily.”
Father Pasquerel adds, “the image of Our Savior, sitting as a judge on the clouds of the sky, was painted on it. In addition there was also a painted angel, holding in its hands a lily, that the image of the Savior blessed.”

http://www.stjoan-center.com/j-cc/

I am a rose of Sharon,
    a lily of the valleys.
 Like a lily among thorns
    is my darling among the young women.

On October 15, 2005 I founded ‘The Joyous Jubilee’ at Yahoogroups. My first post bid everyone to “repent” in regards to the evil economic system the Republicans installed in our democracy aimed at putting as many people in debt as possible. I bid folks to repent, not to save their souls, but save the world economy that I predicted would collapse. No one listened. Folks took me as a fool.This day, the word JUBILEE is being applied to the Occupy Wall Street Movement.
I have come to take Jesus from the Rich, and those alleged Christians who support the Rich.
John the Nazarite
Your sorrow will soon turn to Joy.”
In Luke 4.18-19 we read of the beginning of Jesus’ ministry in a Synagogue in Nazareth. He stands up to be recognized, the attendant hands him the Torah roll, specifically the roll of Isaiah, to read, and he seeks a particular, Messianic passage, Isaiah 61.1-2, Luke 4.18-19).
‘The spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because God has anointed me to preach good news to the meek, he has sent me to bind up the broken of heart, to proclaim liberty to captives and to those who are prisoners, freedom, to proclaim the Jubilee year of the Lord and the day of God’s vengeance’.
The terms that Jesus was using in his discourse were those associated with Sabbatical Years, and with the Jubilee Year that was observed every fiftieth year. In this year all the debts of the poor were absolved, and slaves set free. Jubilee Years were not being celebrated by the Jews in the 1st century, yet the ordinary seven-year sabbatical cycle was very much in evidence among the Jews and Samaritans. The last time the Jubilee was celebrated was in 121 BCE.
I suspect Jesus was calling for the reinstatement of the Jubilee Year and thus the severe questioning from the Jews as to his authority to call for the freeing of slaves, the forgiveness of all debts by the poor who became slaves to fellow Jews in order to pay a debt, and, the non-payment of taxes during the Jubilee Year, which would get him in trouble with the Romans and the wealthy Sanhedrin who approved of Roman rule because it created a upper class, the very thing the Jubilee Year was designed to prevent from being permently established. The wealthy Jews who saw loss of revenue, and the return of lands to the poor tenants, tried to murder Jesus, who I suspect has produced Revelations, proclaiming himself the Alpha and Omega, the first and last days when God will have his vengeance and Judgement. The Jubilee Year began on the Day of Atonement.
Here is the proof that Jesus was preaching Orthodoxy

https://rosamondpress.wordpress.com/2011/10/30/the-joyous-jubilee/

Jesus descends from Boaz and Ruth who may be the two pillars that guard the temple, thus, Jesus is the Son of the Temple of God. He is the living Temple. When he came to Bethlehem and read from the Torah about the Jubilee, the people did not try to shove him over a cliff, but, proclaimed him their Kinsman Redeemer for in Bethlehem were many Moabite Jews who accepted the Word of God when Boaz showed Ruth mercy, and as her kinsman redeemer, married her so she would not go hungry in the world as a orphan.
Jews all over the world celebrate the Shavuot by staying up all night reading the “little scroll” of Ruth, and the five books of the Pentateuch. Jesus celebrated the Shavuot in Jerusalem where many proclaimed him the Messiah, thus it is a lie that the Jews did not recognize their Messiah. He then went to the summit of the Mount of Olives to read the Book of Ruth to the multitude. He then sent his favorite disciple, Judas, to give the priests in the temple 30 pieces of silver for the purchase of the temple ground that sit upon the ground Boaz gave to Ruth as a wedding present, so she and her people will forever be a member of the Congregation of God.
In John 17, Jesus speaks words that bring the Moabites back into the Covenant of God. Apparently he knows THE NAME OF GOD and gives that name to the Moabites. This is why the priests arrested Jesus and many of his followers.
I have long wondered how Jesus’ prayer to his disciple was recorded – if his disciples were asleep ast a distance! This is the work of Satan Paul who never went anywhere but in a room in Rome where he reworked the teaching of this Son of Ruth. Jews are bid to stay awake all night – this very day!
The mystery of the Small Scroll, is no mystery to me. The Book of Ruth is called the “little scroll” Ruth changed her name to Mara “bitter” the meaning of the name Mary. The angel who has one foot in the sea, and the other on the land, bids John to eat the little scroll that will sour in his stomach. When Jesus Judges the Sotah, he writes the name of God in the dust, puts THE NAME in a cup of water, and bids the woman accused of adultery to drink. If she is guilty, her stomach will turn sour, swell, and burst.
When I died I saw this angel sitting on a rock, with one foot in the sea, and the other on the sand. When he drank from the bitter sea water, he restored my life. When Jews living all over the world heard the Messiah had brought the foreign Moabites back into the covenant, they knew many foreigners were now welcome to become Jews. Surely they told the Gentiles. What need of Paul, then? Paul is the “dark prince”.
I believe these are the words of THE WAY:
But Ruth said, ‘Do not urge me to leave you, to turn back from following you. For where you go, I will go; where you lodge, I will lodge; your people are my people, and your God my God; where you die I will die, and there I will be buried. Thus may God do to me, and so may He do more, if anything but death separates me from you. (Ruth 1:16-17)
Jon The Kinsman Redeemer
The Angel and the Little Scroll
10 Then I saw another mighty angel coming down from heaven. He was robed in a cloud, with a rainbow above his head; his face was like the sun, and his legs were like fiery pillars. 2 He was holding a little scroll, which lay open in his hand. He planted his right foot on the sea and his left foot on the land, 3 and he gave a loud shout like the roar of a lion. When he shouted, the voices of the seven thunders spoke. 4 And when the seven thunders spoke, I was about to write; but I heard a voice from heaven say, “Seal up what the seven thunders have said and do not write it down.”
5 Then the angel I had seen standing on the sea and on the land raised his right hand to heaven. 6 And he swore by him who lives for ever and ever, who created the heavens and all that is in them, the earth and all that is in it, and the sea and all that is in it, and said, “There will be no more delay! 7 But in the days when the seventh angel is about to sound his trumpet, the mystery of God will be accomplished, just as he announced to his servants the prophets.”
8 Then the voice that I had heard from heaven spoke to me once more: “Go, take the scroll that lies open in the hand of the angel who is standing on the sea and on the land.”
9 So I went to the angel and asked him to give me the little scroll. He said to me, “Take it and eat it. It will turn your stomach sour, but ‘in your mouth it will be as sweet as honey.’[a]” 10 I took the little scroll from the angel’s hand and ate it. It tasted as sweet as honey in my mouth, but when I had eaten it, my stomach turned sour. 11 Then I was told, “You must prophesy again about many peoples, nations, languages and kings.”
Sephardic, Israeli Hebrew: [məɡiˈlat rut]; Ashkenazi Hebrew: [məˈɡɪləs rus]; Biblical Hebrew: Megilath Ruth “the Scroll of Ruth”) is one of the books of the Hebrew Bible, Tanakh, or Old Testament. In the Jewish canon the Book of Ruth is included in the third division, or the Writings (Ketuvim). In the Christian canon the Book of Ruth is placed between Judges and 1 Samuel.[1] It is a rather short book, in both Jewish and Christian scripture, consisting of only four chapters.

https://rosamondpress.wordpress.com/2012/08/18/jesus-the-kinsman-redeemer/

In October of 2005 I founded a yahoogroup Joyous Jubilee. I believe Jesus came to restore the Jubilee, forgive all Jews of their debts, and destroy the tithe debt archives that were stored on temple grounds. If Romeny paid no taxes, then why should any American who was plunged into debt due to the Mortgage Meltdown. If the Federal Government can forgive the Romenys of their debt, why not millions more? The God of Jews established an earthly kingdom, and Jesus was restoring that kingdom. The Rapture is a hoax, a pie in the sky swindle backed by the Koch brothers who give millions to this heresy in order to end the two party system.
Jon Presco
Before the zealots burned Sephoris in 66 C.E., “their first impulse
once armed was to destroy the debt archives and revenge themselves
on those cities that administered their exploitation and
oppression.”
– John Dominic Crossan, The Essential Jesus: Original Sayings and
Earliest Images (1998), p. 7
But a certain Judas, a Gaulanite from a city named Gamala, who
had enlisted the aid of Saddok, a Pharisee, threw himself into the
cause of rebellion. They said that the [tax] assessment carried
with it a status amounting to downright slavery, no less, and
appealed to the nation to make a bid for independence [Josephus,
ANTIQUITIES 18.4, LCL].
As for the fourth of the philosophies, Judas the Galilean set
himself up as leader of it. This school agrees in all other
respects with the opinions of the Pharisees, except that they have a
passion for liberty that is almost unconquerable, since they are
convinced that God alone is their leader and master [Josephus,
ANTIQUITIES
18.23, LCL].
Jews that were accused by Antiochus had any hand in it, but that all
was done by some vile persons greatly in debt,
who supposed that if they could once set fire to the market-place,
and burn the public records, they should have no
further demands made upon them. So the Jews were under great
disorder and terror, in the uncertain expectations
3. At the very same time with the forementioned revolt of the
Germans did the bold attempt of the Scythians against the Romans
occur; for those Scythians who are called Sarmatians, being a very
numerous people,transported themselves over the Danube into Mysia,
without being perceived; after which, by their violence, and
entirely unexpected assault, they slew a great many of the Romans
that guarded the frontiers; and as the consular legate Fonteius
Agrippa came to meet them, and fought courageously against them.
Jesus has been called `The Wind’ and it was a devastating wind that
struck New Orleans and exposed for the whole world to see how poorly
the evangelico right-wing Christian Republican party have been
treating the needy and the destitute in America. They have been
taking from the poor, and giving unto the rich, using Biblical
teaching, assuring us it is God’s plan to create a trickle-down
economy where the very rich are catered to and given unlimited power
and wealth so they can produce capitol for our Capitalist system
they promise to change into an ecclesiastical state and Kingdom of
God. However, within the very Laws of God, given to Moses in the
Mosaic Laws, already established that Kingdom and bid it be
sustained by the Sabbatical and Jubilee Year to ensure that “the
meek shall inherit the earth” verses the pyramid system that held
the Jews as slaves for many generations, until God gave them LIBERTY.
It is this Liberty that is at the core of the Jubilee where the
Shofar, the horn of the Ram is blown on the Day of Atonement. And
the curtain of the Tabernacle was opened from the top to the bottom,
and come forth the priests carrying the Ark of the Covenant. And
atop the Ark sat The Lord as if upon His thrown. And the trumpets
sounded, and the priests called loudly to the multitude;
“Prepare a way for thy Lord. Make straight paths for him”
I invited all good souls from all nations, who wish to see the
Jubilee Year restored, and thus the Kingdom of God here on Earth –
and never in heaven – to come forth and help prepare the way for the
least amongst you, the poor, the disenfranchised, the disabled, the
blind, all those who have been bruised by the yoke of slavery. It is
time all the poor in America be forgivin of their debts. If the rich
can be forgiven of paying their taxes, by those who claim they are
of God, then anything is possbile.
I have been bid to reveal the core of my book I have been authoring
for many years as there is no time to waste. I will show you how
Paul of Tarsus was bid to created a false teaching to counter this
Jubilee that Jesus brought becacua it was a great threat to Rome,
the great slave-state in the history of humankind. I will show you
how Gentiles were playing a huge role in God’s own revolution that
was sweeping into Europe, and was poised to turn the Roman world
upside down.
Let the Christians in the Red States make atonement for the sin of
slavery, and rid themselves of the false priests who used God’s
words, and Jesus’s teaching to justify slavery. Surley they came
upon the Jubilee Year, and the sound of Jesus blowing the Shofar in
their ear, but, they chose to ignore that Judgement Day. How dare
they force their own upon us, and this Democracy!
Your sorrow will soon turn to Joy.”
In Luke 4.18-19 we read of the beginning of Jesus’ ministry in a Synagogue in Nazareth. He stands up to be recognized, the attendant hands him the Torah roll, specifically the roll of Isaiah, to read, and he seeks a particular, Messianic passage, Isaiah 61.1-2, Luke 4.18-19).
‘The spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because God has anointed me to preach good news to the meek, he has sent me to bind up the broken of heart, to proclaim liberty to captives and to those who are prisoners, freedom, to proclaim the Jubilee year of the Lord and the day of God’s vengeance’.
The terms that Jesus was using in his discourse were those associated with Sabbatical Years, and with the Jubilee Year that was observed every fiftieth year. In this year all the debts of the poor were absolved, and slaves set free. Jubilee Years were not being celebrated by the Jews in the 1st century, yet the ordinary seven-year sabbatical cycle was very much in evidence among the Jews and Samaritans. The last time the Jubilee was celebrated was in 121 BCE.
I suspect Jesus was calling for the reinstatement of the Jubilee Year and thus the severe questioning from the Jews as to his authority to call for the freeing of slaves, the forgiveness of all debts by the poor who became slaves to fellow Jews in order to pay a debt, and, the non-payment of taxes during the Jubilee Year, which would get him in trouble with the Romans and the wealthy Sanhedrin who approved of Roman rule because it created a upper class, the very thing the Jubilee Year was designed to prevent from being permently established. The wealthy Jews who saw loss of revenue, and the return of lands to the poor tenants, tried to murder Jesus, who I suspect has produced Revelations, proclaiming himself the Alpha and Omega, the first and last days when God will have his vengeance and Judgement. The Jubilee Year began on the Day of Atonement.
Here is the proof that Jesus was preaching Orthodoxy
,
I will show you that Jesus was the author of Revelations that are
composed of, and are a continuation of the visions of Ezekiel,
Haggai, and Zechariah, and are the only valid End Times. I declare
the End Time visions of Margaret McDonald, John Darby, and the
Plymouth Brethren, a false revelation, as it is clear “the
vengeance” of the Lord already came when Jesus was ceremoniously
crucified on the cross in Mathttew 27:53, where we read how he
raised the dead from the `Valley of Dry Bones’ as seen in the vision
of Ezekiel.
“Repent!”
Jon Presco
Copyright 2005
http://newark.rutgers.edu/~lcrew/assay07.html
http://www.religion-online.org/showarticle.asp?title=28
It is written in the Torah, “You shall sanctify the 50th year and
proclaim freedom throughout the land for all its inhabitants; it
shall be the Jubilee year for you, you shall return each person to
his ancestral heritage and you shall return each to his family. It
shall be a Jubilee Year for you – the 50th year – you shall not sow,
you shall not harvest its after-growth and you shall not pick what
was set aside of it for yourself. For it is a Jubilee Year, it shall
be holy to you; from the field you eat its crop.” (Leviticus 25:10-
13)
Basically, these verses indicate that the Jubilee requires all debts
between Jews to be annulled. Also, any Jew that sold his or herself
into slavery is released, whether they worked the amount of time
they promised, or not. Rashi, (11th century France) points out the
world Jubilee is related to the Hebrew word for “ram,” alluding to
the fact that the Jubilee year is proclaimed by the blast of a ram’s
horn! Nachmanides adds that the word Jubilee is also related to the
Hebrew word which means “to move around.” Thusly, we are reminded
that all Jews who had sold themselves into slavery, or were shackled
(so to speak) by debt, were now released from their bonds and were
given the freedom TO MOVE AROUND.
It is remarkable that the visions of the Temple received by Ezekiel
and the messages of the new Temple received by Haggai and Zechariah
were all received in correspondence with the epoch of a jubilee year.
If a jubilee year was celebrated in this modern era–as a projection
of jubilees celebrated in the Temple Era–it is probable that the
next jubilee year would correspond to the year 2029-2030 (reckoned
from the autumn). However, due to some uncertainty inherent in the
assumptions currently made and due to the antiquity of the cited
source material, the current analysis should be considered to be
very speculative.
Jesus does not identify those who will receive the vineyard. Within
the context of Mark’s gospel they are usually considered to be the
Gentiles. But while this is true for Matthew’s gospel, the “others”
may, in fact, imply the disenfranchised lower classes to whom the
evangelist Mark addressed his gospel. Moreover, originally in the
context of Jesus’ own ministry, the “others” were probably intended
to be the very people who were exploited by the ruling elite, the
peasants whose agriculture produced the wealth with they were able
to appropriate by their office and power. The promise of the jubilee
year will be realized. The land will be restored to the dispossessed
peasants who as tenants produced the agricultural wealth which the
ruling class redistributed for their own aggrandizement.
Jesus’ parables violated the ordered system of land tenure and
economic exchange in the world of his day. The rule of God, which
his stories metaphorically disclosed, will undermine the ruling
elite’s self-serving systemic structures and institutions. Under the
expansion of God’s rule those who exploit, dispossess and
marginalize the weak and the poor, will forfeit all their advantages
of power and wealth. In spite of the continuation of the stark
realities of the socio-economic pyramid benefiting the upper
classes, the realities of redemption and restoration, which the year
of jubilee envisioned, will be actualized, not only for Israel but
for all the nations and peoples of the world.
Rostovtzeff offers a comprehensive view of land tenure in Palestine:
“Judaea, Samaria, and still more Galilee are studded with hundreds
of villages inhabited by peasants, Samaria, and still more Galilee
are studded with hundreds of villages inhabited by peasants, above
whom stands a native aristocracy of large landowners, who are
patrons of the villages… Still more opulent are the officials of
the kings and tetrarchs, and the kings and tetrarchs themselves and
their families. Lastly, we find estates of the Roman emperor himself
and the imperial family, and even a military colony established by
Vespasian at Emmaus after the Jewish War. Such were the conditions
of life in Palestine, and in later times there was clearly no
change, except that landed proprietors of other than Jewish origin,
like Libanius, increased in number.”
Jusus’ parable of the wicked tenants supports Rostovtzeffs socio-
economic analysis, mirroring the institution of prebendal domains
and its concomitant feature of absentee landownership which
dominated Galilean agriculture. A landlord has established a
vineyard: vines have been planted, a wall has been constructed, a
vat has been dug, a tower has been built, the vineyard has been
leased to tenants and the owner has withdrawn-most likelly to his
place of residence in another area of Palestine or possibly even
abroad.

Thomas Moore had four children that he raised after his wife died. He was made a Saint and Martyre of the Catholic Church. Erasmus mentions my ancestor, Godschalk Rosemondt, in his letter to Moore in regards to the Inquisitor, Egmondamus, who is accusing this famous Biblical scholar of being in league with Martin Luthar, and thus – is guilty of heresy! Erasmus knows his life is at stake – along with his reputation.

Rosemondt is the Rector of Leuven, and the Master of the Falcon Art College. He is a good friend of Pope Andrien. Perhaps he is lurking in the background of the painting we see above, where Moore’s daughter is in distress when her father is arrested. This is the calm before the storm my ancestor is trying to prevent.

I hereby offer the history of my illustrious family, and my Biblical knowledge in defence of the President of the United States in regards to the false accusations made by Catholic Bishops in order to hurt his reputation in the coming Presidential elections.

In this Democracy we all are presumed innocent until found guilty. To be found guilty, there must be a crime. Show me the crime, or, forever hold your peace!

If there is no crime, or, breach of the Constitution, then the Catholic Church is guilty of using the pulpit to spread a political agenda. If this is the case, then the Catholic Church should loose its tax exemption, along with all Federal funding, for it appears the Catholic church is against the Federal Government while they harbour a secret agenda that should be made visible to all!

Behind every crime, there lies a motive! What motive does our President have in any attack on religion? Establish the motive, or hold your slanderous tongue: Because things have changed in the world since the Pope’s people could freely go around destroying the lives of innocent people, first with their tongues, and then with a branding iron!

“Defamation—also called calumny, vilification, traducement, slander (for transitory statements), and libel (for written, broadcast, or otherwise published words)—is the communication of a statement that makes a claim, expressly stated or implied to be factual, that may give an individual, business, product, group, government, or nation a negative image. This can be also any disparaging statement made by one person about another, which is communicated or published. It is usually a requirement that this claim be false and that the publication is communicated to someone other than the person defamed (the claimant).[1]

In law, a class action, a class suit, or a representative action is a form of lawsuit in which a large group of people collectively bring a claim to court and/or in which a class of defendants is being sued. Class actions are commonly referred to as “class action suits,” however this phrase is redundant as the historical distinction between “actions” at law and “suits” in equity is no longer recognized. This form of collective lawsuit originated in the United States and is still predominantly a U.S. phenomenon. However, in several European countries with civil law, as opposed to the Anglo-American common law system, changes have been made in recent years that allow consumer organizations to bring claims on behalf of large groups of consumers.

Jon Presco ‘The Nazarite’

“I had written to the rector of the university to protest against the
attacks made on me by Egmondamus in the pulpit and he wrote back
that if I was prepared to listen in person while he did his tale
unfold, we might perhaps come to some agreement.”

1153/ To Godschalk Rosemondt Louvain 18 October 1520

Gottschalk Rosemondt of Eindhoven in Northern Brabant, matriculated
at the University of Louvain on 1499 and remained there until his
death in 1526. A doctor of divinity in 1516, he succeeded in 1520 to
the chair o f theology formerly held by Jan Briart. Like Briart he
was a personal friend of the future Pope Adrian V1. His prominent
position in the theological faculty notwithstanding , he retained an
open
mind towards humanists studies and a measure of sympathy for
Erasmus. This letter is addressed to him in his capacity as rector
of the university for the winter term of 1520-21 (cf Matricule de
Louvain 111-1963) It was published in the Epistolae ad diverse.In
preparation for a confrontations with the theologian Nicolass
Baechem Egmondanus, to be held in the presence of the rector,
Erasmus launches an elaborate protest against his opponent, who had
attacked him from the pulpit of St, Peter’s church on 9 and 14
October,

cf Ep 1162s1162/ To Thomas More Louvain November? 1520

This letter give a spirited account between Erasmus and Nicolas
Baechem
Egmondanus before the rector of the of the university of Louvain,
Godschlak Rosemondt. Printed in the Epistle ad diverse, it was no
doubt composed with a wider public in mind; Thomas More, to whom it
is addressed, need not have been told at length an episode of which
he was himself a protagonist. Erasmus also described the
confrontation with Baecahmen in Ep 1173:29-109

ERASMUS OF ROTTERDAM TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THOMAS MORE GRETTING

The story that has reached you about my little dispute with Nicolaus
Egdmondanus in the pressed of the rector of this university is not
wholly true, and yet not quite devoid of truth; such is the way of
rumor, which likes to enhance the facts and tell the story with a
difference. Nor are he and I so much at variance that I would
willingly see him the victim of false reports. So here is the true
story, since I see that in your part of the world you are so idle
you can find time to follow the silly things we do here.

I had written to the rector of the university to protest against the
attacks made on me by Egmondamus in the pulpit and he wrote back
that if I was prepared to listen in person while he did his tale
unfold, we might perhaps come to some agreement. I replied that I
had no objection, though well aware that no lasting good would come
of it. So we met, and the rector took the chair, with me on the
right and Egmondamus on the left. This arrangement was not without
point. He knew Egmondamu’s temperament, and of me he had quite the
wrong idea: he thought I was capable of losing my temper. So he sat
between us, to keep the combatants apart. There upon the rector
opened the subject in a few words, and then, with a countenance of
wonderful and comical gravity Egmondanus began: `I have spoken ill
of no man in my sermon. If Erasmus thinks he has suffered an injury,
let him declare it, and I will answer him.’I asked him whether there
could be a more atrocious injury that to traduce an innocent man in
a public sermon with a string of lies. That roused him at once;
dropping the mask he assumed, and almost purple in the face (his
face was red already, for it was after dinner), `And why, pray, says
he. `do you traduce me in your religious books, `I replied, `your
name is never mentioned.’ Nor has your,’ he retorted, `ever been
uttered in my sermons.’

I denied that my books were religious books, for in them I set down
my down my own imaginings and write whatever come into my head – a
thing, I added, which is not allowed in the pulpit. `Beside which’,
I said’ `I have written for less about you then the facts warrant.
You have told lies about me in public, calling me a supporter of
Luther, whom I have never supported in the sense that the public
reads into your words and you mean yourself.’ By this time he was
not merely exited, he was like a madman. `No, no’, he shouted, `you
are behind the whole lot. You are the slippery customer, the double-
dealer; you can twist everything somehow by the tail.’ And he spewed
up, rather than uttered, much more of the same kind, which
glittering bile at the moment put into his head.I felt my own
hackles rising, and already let out a word which was the forerunner
of rather intemperate language, not exactly `Thou fool’ but
something of the sort that would smell worse then it sounds. But I
controlled myself instantly, thinking it better to respect my won
health ( for I was poorly) and that of the rector, who was also in
the doctor’s hands, beside which it seemed foolish and undignified
to answer a madman in his own language.. So I turned to the rector
with a smile and said,’ I could bring evidence of his outrageous
calumnies, and I could return his abuse. He calls me slippery; I
could call him in my turn a fox..1164/ To Godschalk RosemondtThis
undated letter follows Ep 1153 and Erasmus’s visit to Cologne. It
also report an event that took place on 25 November. It was
published in the Epistle ad diversoss.