108. I saw a mortar, and a man standing by with an iron tool, who in his delusion seemed to himself to be pounding up men, inflicting dire agonies on them. This man was doing it with great pleasure; the pleasure itself was communicated to me so that I should know of what kind and how great their pleasure is who are of such a nature - it was an exceedingly infernal pleasure. I was told that such pleasure was dominant among the descendants of Jacob, and they took no greater pleasure than in cruelly treating Gentiles, exposing their corpses to be eaten by wild beasts and birds, cutting them while alive with saws and axes, putting them in a brick-kiln, 2 Sam. xii 31, dashing children together and casting them out. Such things were nowhere ordered, nor ever permitted, except to those who had the sinew of the thigh out of joint, as happened to Jacob when he wrestled with the angel, Genesis xxxii 26, 32, 33. Such people live beneath the right heel, where are the adulterers who are also cruel. Among the adulterers who are also cruel and completely pitiless are many Jesuits and monks who were adulterers. Their pleasure is similar when they look on capital punishment, especially while [they see punished those who] do anything to detract from their tyrannous power over the Church and heaven, and over men's souls, as well as those who infringe their privileges.