context: After Antoine Arnauld's death in 1694 Quesnel was generally regarded as the leader of the Jansenist party; and his Réflexions morales sur le Nouveau Testament played almost as large a part in its literature as Jansen's Augustinus itself.
source: As its title betokens, Quesnel's book was a devotional commentary on the New Testament, wherein Quesnel managed to explain the aims and ideals of the Jansenist party better than any earlier writer had done; and it accordingly became the chief object of Jesuit attack.
reference_original: Wie der Titel verrät war Quesnels Buch ein Andachtskommentar zum Neuen Testament, in dem Quesnel die Ziele und Ideale der jansenitischen Partei besser als jeder frühere Autor zu erklären vermochte.
reference_flipped: Wie der Titel verrät war Quesnels Buch ein Andachtskommentar zum Neuen Testament, in dem Quesnel die Ziele und Ideale der jansenitischen Partei besser als jede frühere Autorin zu erklären vermochte.