Arnauld, and the _Monita_ of Widenfeld. Arnauld speaks of this as _un décret pitoyable_,[1] and Gerberon says: _Cette censure ambiguë est le scandale de la Cour Romaine, la honte du Saint Office et la confusion du Pontificat d’Alexandre VIII_.[2] 3. =The Protestant Theologians of Holland in the 17th Century.=--The compilers of the Index selected from the Dutch writings of this period only such books as were issued in Latin or as were printed later in French versions. It appears that the Dutch language constituted a sufficient barrier to secure a practical protection against the condemnation of the Church. It is noteworthy to remember, however, that this condemnation would in any case not have been likely to influence those readers who took their literature in the Dutch form, and it is quite probable that the majority of these Dutch readers never even knew that their authors had the distinction of being prohibited. Even in the case of those authors whose books did appear in the world language of Latin, the selections of the Index compilers were made at haphazard and omitted a number of the most noteworthy names. Arminius, Voetius, Gomarus, Coccejus, and a number of other leaders of thought in Holland are not found in the Index. The Congregation did succeed in getting into their lists the names of a number of obscure authors whose books had been printed originally in Latin, but who were forgotten excepting in connection with this record. The treatise by Grotius, _De Jure Belli et Pacis_, and a few of the writings of Heinsius, Fossius, and Horne were prohibited.