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<em>Successio Anabaptistka, Dat is Babel der [[Wederdopers|Wederdopers]]</em>, is the title of a book published by V. P. in Cologne, 1603; there was a second unaltered edition at Cologne, 1612. This book is very rare; of the first edition only three copies are extant, and four of the second. There was a copy of the second edition in the Danzig Mennonite library; the [[Amsterdam Mennonite Library (Bibliotheek en Archief van de Vereenigde
Doopsgezinde Gemeente te Amsterdam)|Amsterdam Mennonite library]]has a copy of both editions. A reprint with introduction was published by [[Cramer, Samuel (1842-1913)|Samuel Cramer]] in [[Bibliotheca Reformatoria Neerlandica|&lt;em&gt;Bibliotheca Reformatoria Neerlandica&lt;/em&gt; VII]](The Hague, 1910). Besides the <em>Beginsel en voortganck der geschillen</em> written some years later, this book is the only account of 16th-century Dutch Anabaptist history by a comtemporary author who deals especially with various schisms among the Dutch Mennonites; it contains much information about church leaders found in no other source; therefore the book, since it is on the whole very reliable, is a valuable source, though it was written by an opponent of the Mennonites. The author was probably [[Walrave, Simon (b. ca. 1570)|Simon Walraven]], who married a granddaughter of Joost Buyck, burgomaster of Amsterdam, and was later a Roman Catholic priest at Kevendonk near [[Goch (Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany)|Goch]], Germany.

The motive for writing and publishing this book was a publication by the Mennonite author Jacob Pietersz van der Meulen, who wrote <em>Successio Apostolica, Dat is Naecominghe ofte Naetredinghe der Apostelen</em> (Alkmaar, 1600) which attacked the Catholic Church, explaining that a true spiritual apostolic succession is found not among the Catholics but among the Mennonites. Then Walraven tried to show that among the Mennonites there was no apostolic succession but merely a "Babel of confusion."


= Bibliography =
Cramer, Samuel and Fredrik Pijper. <em>Bibliotheca Reformatoria Neerlandica</em>, 10 vols. The Hague: M. Nijhoff, 1903-1914

Vos, Karel. <em>Menno Simons, 1496-1561, zijn leven en werken en zijne reformatorische denkbeelden.</em> Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1914.


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