Preface

       Wenceslas Link to all believers in Christ:

       The wise Solomon says in Proverbs : "The people who withhold

       grain curse him.  But there is a blessing on those who sell it." 

       This verse speaks truly concerning all that can serve the common

       good or the well-being of Christendom.  This is the reason the

       master in the gospel reprimands the unfaithful servant like a lazy

       scoundrel for having hidden and buried his money in the ground. 

       So that this curse of the Lord and the entire Church might be

       avoided, I must publish this letter which came into my possession

       through a good friend.  I could not withhold it, as there has been

       much discussion about the translating of the Old and New

       Testaments.  It has been charged by the despisers of truth that

       the text has been modified and even falsified in many places,

       which has shocked and startled many simple Christians, even among

       the educated who do not know any Hebrew or Greek.  It is devoutly

       hoped that with this publication the slander of the godless will

       be stopped and the scruples of the devout removed, at least in

       part.  It may even give rise to more writing on such matters and

       questions such as these.  So I ask all friends of the Truth to

       seriously take this work to heart and faithfully pray to God for a

       proper understanding of the divine Scriptures towards the

       improvement and increase of our common Christendom.  Amen.