In 1516 he read a Latin translation of the Greek New Testament published by the Dutch humanist Desiderius Erasmus, which he later transcribed into notebooks and memorized verbatim.

在1516年，他宣读了拉丁美洲翻译的希腊新约全书出版的荷兰人文主义者伊拉斯谟，后来他转录到笔记本电脑和逐字背诵。