ination based upon
his acquaintance with the character of his former master, as to which of
these four motives is most likely to have occasioned the act. He cannot
believe that ambition and covetousness prompted it, "For I remember
when you used to be surrounded by wealth and attendants, you sighed
regretfully for your previous humble station, for your retired life and
communion with wisdom, and regarded your actual brilliant position as
an unsatisfactory sham happiness. Neither can Allorqui admit that Paulus
had been disturbed by philosophic scepticism, for to the day of his
baptism he had observed all the Jewish customs and had only accepted
that little kernel of philosophy which accords with faith, always
rejecting the pernicious outward shell. He must also discard the theory
that the sanguinary persecution of the Jews could have made Paulus
despair of the possible continuation of the Jewish race, for only a
small portion of the Jews dwelt among Christians, while the majority
lived in Asia and enjoyed a certain independence. There remains only
the conclusion that Paulus has tested the new dogmas and found
them sufficient.... Allorqui therefore begs him to communicate his
convictions and vanquish his pupil's doubts concerning Christianity.
Instead of the general spread of divine doctrine and everlasting peace
which the prophets had associated with the advent of the Messiah, only
dissension and war reigned on earth. Indeed, after Jesus' appearance,
frightful wars had but increased.... And even if Allorqui conceded the
Messiahship of Jesus, the Immaculate Conception, the Resurrection, and
all incomprehensible miracles, he could not reconcile himself to the
idea of God becoming a man. Every enlightened conception of the Deity
was at variance with it."

[Page 77 et seq. Volume 8, Second half, Graetz' History of the Jews.]

Marrano..--See Verse xix., Line 7th of "Epistle."

The enforced recipients of baptism who remained in Spain formed a
peculiar class, outwardly Christians, inwardly Jews. They might have
been called Jewish-Christians. They were looked upon with suspicion by
the Christian population, and shunned with a still more intense hatred
by the loyal Jews who gave them the name of Marranos, the accursed.
[Page 73.]

"Master, if thou to thy prides' goal should come, Where wouldst thou
throne--at Avignon or Rome?" Verse xxviii. 7, 8.

This sentence occurs in another Epistle to Paulus by Profiat Duran.

Verse