[16] The ספר אמונות consists of eleven parts, subdivided into chapters; and was published in Ferrara, 1557; the Homilies, entitled דרשות על התורה were first published in Venice, 1547, and then in Padua, 1567. [↑]
[17] Botarel’s Commentary on the Book Jetzira was first published with the text of this book and other commentaries, Mantua, 1562; then Zolkiev, 1745; and in Grodno, 1806, 1820. [↑]
[18] The מנחת יהודה which is a Commentary on the מערכת האלהו was published together with it in Ferrara, 1558. [↑]
[19] The Commentary צרור המור was first published at Constantinople, 1514; then in Venice, 1523, 1546, 1566; and in Cracow 1595. Pellican has translated this Commentary into Latin, and the MS. of this version is in the Zurich Library. [↑]
[20] Vidi in illis (testis est Deus) religionem non tam Mosaicam quam Christianam; ibi Trinitatis mysterium; ibi verbi Incarnatio, ibi Messiae divinitates; ibi de pecato originali, de illius per Christum expiatione, de cælesti Hierusalem, de casu dæmonum, de ordinibus Angelorum, de Purgatoriis, de Inferorum poenis; Eadem legi, quae apud Paulum et Dionysium, apud Hieronymum et Augustinum quotidie legimus. Comp. Index a Jacobo Gaffarello, published by Wolf, Bibliotheca Hebraea, vol. i, p. 9 at the end of the volume. [↑]
[21] Nulla est scientia, quae nos magis certificet de divinitate Christi, quam magia et Cabbala, vide Apologia, p. 42, opp. vol. 1. Basil, 1601. [↑]
[22] Hic libri (Cabbalistorum) Sixtus IV, Pontifex maximus, qui hunc, sub quo vivimus feliciter, Innocentium VIII, proxime antecessit, maxima cura studioque curavit, ut in publicam fidei nostrae utilitarem, Latinis literis mandarentur, jamque cum ille decessit, tres ex illis pervenerant ad Latinos. Vide Gaffarelli in Wolf, Bibliotheca Hebraea, appendix to vol. i, p. 9. [↑]
[23] “Is (Jekiel Loanz) me, supra quam dici queat, fideliter literos Hebraicos primus edocuit.” Comp. Rudim. Hebr. p. 3. [↑]
[24] Comp. Franck, Die Kabbalah oder die Religion Philosophie der Hebräer übersetzt von Jellinek. Leipzig, 1844, p. 8, &c. [↑]
[25] Comp. The Life and Times of John Reuchlin, by Francis Besham, p. 102, &c. [↑]