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What Calvin alleges as substantiation for his pseudo-doctrine that men are prevented from doing good deeds and engaging in the truth because of their corrupt nature, arising from Adam’s sin and that…
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Moses Raphael d’Aguilar
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Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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Early 17th Century
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The main foundation that you propose for your doctrine consists of the sin of Adam, in which you believe sin was perpetrated by all of the human species, which was contained in Adam, and of the sole…
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Isaac Orobio de Castro
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Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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ca. 1670
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We are therefore obliged to examine the words of the living God, which are expressed through the wonderful wise men who have received the truth [i.e., kabbalists], the foundation of the Torah. The…
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Isaac Aboab da Fonseca
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Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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ca. 1636
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Behold, we have before us the head of the rationalists [or “rational theologians”], Maimonides, may his memory be for a blessing. In chapter three of Hilkhot teshuvah [Mishneh Torah, Laws of…
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Saul Levi Mortera
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Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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ca. 1636