Furthermore, because the Calvinists are Magyars, in this way the Slovak Evangelicals should be oppressed, which would lead, slowly but surely, to the extinction of their tongue, and their nationality. ‘Such means as you propose are excellent,’ exclaimed his partisans, and he set himself to work.
And so he began with pretence, chameleon-like, to put himself forward as the most pious of Lutherans — which was announced throughout the villages, and in the cities by all his partisans.
Now, he who is faithful does not trumpet his faithfulness abroad at the street corners; rather, he gives proof of it by his actions. But he who wishes to deceive and cozen others screams his own throat raw so as to drown out the voices of the faithful and then, at last, all the more easily, tangle them in his we
