But for himself he is a humanist, finding truth in the reason as well as in the Bible, and abhorring paradoxes.
The controversy was not allowed to drop at this point.

Many a barbed shaft of wit-winged sarcasm was shot by the light-armed scholar against the ranks of the Reformers.

"Where Lutheranism reigns," he wrote Pirckheimer, "sound learning perishes." "With disgust," he confessed to Ber, "I see the cause of Christianity approaching a condition that I should be very unwilling to have it reach.

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