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The Last Testament of a Father to His Beloved Son · Passage 7
German
Mein liebster Sohn! Hierin ist eine Vermahnung von mir geschrieben, wie du gegen GOtt und deinem Nächsten Christlich leben solt. Damit du aber alles wol verstehest, was hierin geschrieben ist, ist mein ernstlicher Wille und väterlich Bitten an dich, daß du dieses nicht eröffnen und lesen sollest, du seyst denn erst zu deinem rechten Verstand und zwantzigsten Jahren gekommen, auch niemand anders sol es erbrechen, als du selbst. Und so es iemand anders zu Handen kommen solte, bitt ich denselben, wer es auch ist, respectivè dienstlich, daß er dieses meinem ältesten Sohne selbst zu treuen Händen unerbrochen zustellen wolle. Weil hierin nichts ist, als nur eine treuliche Vermahnung an denselben meinen lieben Sohn.
English
My dearest son, I have written here an admonition on how you should live as a Christian towards God and your neighbour. So that you may properly understand everything written here, it is my earnest wish and fatherly request that you neither open nor read this until you have attained sound understanding and your twentieth year. No one but you yourself is to break its seal. If it should fall into anyone else’s hands, I respectfully request that person, whoever they may be, to deliver it unopened into the trusted hands of my eldest son himself, since it contains only a faithful admonition to my dear son.
Socrates
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The complete supplied German–English edition of the 1682 collection: the main treatise attributed to Ali Puli, Helbig’s preface, distinct companion discourses, the short potable-gold preparation and the anonymous Father’s Last Testament, with four historical figures, 103 annotations and the full Diotimos study apparatus.
Historical Text and Translation
The governing German witness is the complete 1682 collection in Badische Landesbibliothek Karlsruhe, shelfmark 87 B 76050, with an unnumbered title and printed pages 1–80. The historical title’s Arabic and Portuguese antecedents and its authorial persona are retained as claims, not authenticated originals. Johann Otto Helbig (Hellwig), Martin de Delle, J. J. F. and the anonymous testament retain their distinct historical roles.
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