He stated: “It is my intention... to recount the misfortunes which immediately came on the whole Jewish nation in consequence of their plots against our Saviour, and to record the ways and times in which the divine word has been attacked by the Gentiles, and to describe the character of those who at various periods have contended for it in the face of blood and tortures, as well as the confessions which have been made in our own day, and the gracious and kindly succour which our Saviour has accorded them all. ”
त्याने म्हटले: “यहुद्यांनी आपल्या तारकाविरुद्ध रचलेल्या कटाचा परिणाम म्हणून संपूर्ण यहुदी राष्ट्रावर आलेल्या दुर्घटनांचा अहवाल देणे व परराष्ट्रीयांनी ज्या पद्धतींनी व जितक्या वेळा देवाच्या वचनावर हल्ला केला त्याचा अहवाल देणे आणि रक्‍त व छळांव्यतिरिक्‍त ज्यांनी त्याकरता विविध समयी संघर्ष केला त्यांच्या महानतेचे त्याचप्रमाणे आपल्याच काळात [लोकांनी] केलेली विश्‍वासाची कबुली व आपल्या तारकाने त्या सर्वांना दयाळुपणे व प्रेमळपणे दिलेली मदत यांचे वर्णन करणे...