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He is known especially through his energetic proceedings against Uriel da Costa. Before the latter"s "Examination of the Pharisaic Tradition" had appeared in print, Silva, who had had an opportunity to read part of it in manuscript, issued a booklet in Portuguese against its author lieutenant is an able treatise on the subject discussed, and alludes to Da Costa only by his first name.
Ten years previous to the publication of this pamphlet Samuel da Silva made a Spanish translation of Moses Maimonides" tract on repentance.