Late punctuation is dangerous: no need, no mandate, and no infallible sense if the points are new
(3) It is dangerous. First, because that change of the Bibles would have been made without necessity of the time, if it was made at all: both because God by His providence could have preserved the sacred Scripture He had kept until then into late ages without such an addendum, and because neither God's command nor any reason of necessity drove them to this work. For the author of the Arcanum of punctuation revealed (book 1 chapter 18) shows by many reasons that unpointed Hebrew could somehow be read of old, and today we know from Jewish manuscripts that they read the sacred texts most readily without points.
Second, because for so many ages back that would have stood in the authentic text of the Bibles which is not true in every part and does not belong to authenticity's majesty. For when the anonymous author (book 2 chapter 22) teaches that our judgment cannot finally and infallibly be fixed on those points, and that nothing ought to be concluded infallibly and authentically from the truth of sense that arises today from that placement and form of the points — then what has until now been held as belonging to the authentic text's literary integrity collapses and vanishes into air like an Empusa.
Third, because it will then be doubtful what the Holy Spirit properly intended in each place of Scripture, and we will not be able to know it infallibly. For we may not flee to the points we use today as to authenticity's asylum, because they are new, and the infallibility of the sense emerging from them is denied. Nor would one believe the punctators were prophets, since the rabbis are known to have been the fiercest enemies of the Christian name. Nor is it enough meanwhile to appeal to the letters: since these are formless, from where will they draw an infallible form? One will have to flee to a living or mute master: the former is not given, and if given would be fallible; the latter is wanting to this day. The Chaldee paraphrase is a version, not authenticity; the rabbis' darkness is a gulf of trifles; after Christ's ascension there is no synagogue — on that path the genuine sense would hang solely on the Jewish church, and Scripture would be a dead letter.
Latin
3. Periculosa est, 1. quia citra necessitatem tum temporis illa mutatio Bibliorum facta foret, siquidem facta est: cum quia Deus providentia sua scripturam sacram quam eousque conservarat in sera usque secula sine tali additamento conservare potuisset, tum quia eos neque mandatum Dei neque ulla necessitatis ratio ad hoc opus adegit. Nam auctor Arcani punctuationis revelati lib.1. cap.18. multis rationibus demonstrat quod & quodammodo Hebraica non punctata legi olim potuerint, & hodie e Judaeorum M.S. scimus ipsos sine punctis quam expeditissime sacros textus legere. 2. quia hactenus a tot retro seculis in authentico Bibliorum textu illud fuisset quod omni ex parte verum non est, neque ad authentiae majestatem pertinet. Nam cum anonymus auctor lib.2. cap.22. docet judicium nostrum in puncta illa ultimo & infallibiliter figi non posse, neque e veritate sensus qui ex illa punctorum positura & forma hodie oritur infallibiliter & authentice quicquam concludi debere — ruit & Empusae ad instar in auras abit quod adhuc habitum est pro eo quod ad authentici textus integritatem literariam pertineat. 3. quia ita dubium erit quidnam Spiritus sanctus proprie intenderit in singulis scripturae locis, nosque id infallibiliter scire non poterimus. Nam ad puncta quibus hodie utimur tanquam ad authentiae asylum confugere non licet, quia nova sunt, & negatur ex iis emergentis sensus infallibilitas. Neque enim punctatores prophetas fuisse crediderit, cum Rabinos Christiani nominis hostes infestissimos fuisse constet. Neque interibi ad literas provocare satis est: cum enim hae informes sint, unde sibi formam infallibilem allicient? Confugiendum erit ad magistrum vivum aut mutum: ille non datur & si daretur fallibilis foret; hic in hodiernum desideratur. Paraphrasis Chaldaica versionest non authentia; tenebrae Rabinorum barathrum nugarum; synagoga post ascensum Christi nulla est — hac ratione genuinus sensus unice penderet ab ecclesia Judaica, & scriptura foret litera mortua.