Short Work on the Subject of His Conversion
Chapter 1
Concerning the vision that he saw while still a boy.
Now then, I, Herman, who was once called Judah, am a sinner and an unworthy priest. I am of the Israelite people and the tribe of Levi and I was born of David, my father, and Sephora, my mother, in the city of Cologne. While I was still caught in the grip of Jewish unbelief, God showed…
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