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3* as a gift of our Lord God Almighty for these latter times and days of the Antichrist.

Numerous men of almost all estates – the estate of Christ's priests, the estate of the Lords and the estate of the Knights, the estate of the Burghers as well as of many learned and common people – all of them cherish, accept and honor the truths of these books and other writings of Peter Chelcicky; and they do not slight him because he is a layman, not learned in the Latin tongue. For though he was not a master of the seven arts, he certainly was a practitioner of the eight beatitudes and of all the divine commandments, and was therefore a real Czech doctor, well versed in the Law of the Lord without aberration from the truth. In him was fulfilled the word of the prophet saying,     ,     , , and in another Psalm, ,. ,    ,    , . And even our Lord Jesus says in the Gospel of Saint John,              a [sic]     ,. O, how happy and blessed are the disciples who are taught in such a way by  Psalm 94:12

Psalm 71:17–18

John 6:45