_ 76 _ I have been many times to the Pope, who is now seventy years old, about the question of the infidel and he hastened to give many precedents to arouse the Christians here to take part in a general crusade against them, especially now, with disputes going on among the Turks who have elevated the son of the Turk to Emperor of Constantinople.(A) The eldest son set out from there with the Sophy to whom he gave his first-born as hostage in return for help against his brother. What seems an even greater mystery of God for the destruction of Mohammed, and the quarrels over the Muslim religion involving all the infidels, for instance, the Sophy’s followers against those of Mohammed, who are fighting and killing each other with fire and sword, with no quarter given, after being allied for the past eight hundred years against our faith. It seems that God, in this way, he arranged for Satan to rise up against himself and be divided, because the deceit that he has sown of late in the world through Mohammed, as in former times, through the idolatry of the heathen, is destroying itself once again and hastening the end, according to what Our Lord says in the gospel. (A) The obscure meaning of this passage is due to errors of the copyist.
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