knowledge of the heretics who are trying to destroy the Church. The Emperor replied that the Archbishop, as the only German on the commission, had been continued at his post to do what he might find possible to prevent the condemnation of any further works and authors of excellence.[217] The introduction of the Tridentine Index orders placed in Class I all authors who may have come under suspicion of heresy (_nota haeresis suspecti_), a description which may be called elastic, and which would naturally be subject to varying interpretation on the part of different persons in authority. Among the associates or correspondents of Erasmus who were placed by the Tridentine editors in the first class and who have since remained under this general condemnation, are Staupitz, Pirckheimer, Hauer, and Bellicanus. Rhenanus and Zasius were transferred in the Trent lists from Class I, where they had been placed by Paul, to Class II, where they have since remained. The chief associate of Erasmus in the contest in Germany against the opposition of a large group at least among the ecclesiastics, in behalf of what may be called higher scholarship, was Reuchlin, who gave years of his life to the work of securing for the German universities the privilege of instruction in Greek and in Hebrew. After 1518, when a number of the works of Erasmus had already found place in the Index, the printers issuing editions of these within the territories controlled by Church censorship found it convenient to omit from the title-pages the name of their author. Such editions were issued, for instance, in 1520 by Paul Manutius, the son of Aldus, bearing on the title-page and in the catalogue, in place of the name of Erasmus, the words, _Batavus quidam homo_. In the Index of 1559, the name of Erasmus is placed under the class of _Auctores quorum libri et scripta omnia prohibentur_. After the entry of the name, however, comes the following specification: _cum universis Commentariis, Annotationibus, Scholiis, Dialogis, Epistolis, Censuris, Versionibus, Libris et Scriptis suis, etiam si nil penitus contra Religionem, vel de Religione contineant_. Mendham refers to this as an illustration of the term _De omnibus Rebus et quibusdam aliis_. It may be recalled, in this connection, that as a result of the dedication to Leo X printed by this condemned writer in the first edition of his annotated Greek Testament, issued in 1516, the Pope addressed to Erasmus a letter published in the second, and in every subsequent, edition of the work, highly commending this production of his dear son. The letter contains the following expressions: _Quas nuper a te recognitas, et pluribus editis annotationibus, locupletatas, illustratasque fuisse certiores facti, non mediocriter gavisi fuimus, ex prima illa editione quae absolutissima videbatur, conjecturam facientes, qualis haes futura, quantumve boni, sacrae Theologiae studiosis, ac orthodoxae fidei nostrae sit allatura_.[218]