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===Suicide===
Two reports agree that da Costa committed suicide in Amsterdam in 1640:<ref>Salomon & Sassoon, introduction to da Costa's Examination of Pharisaic Traditions, 1993 [p. 23].</ref> [[:w:de:Johannes Müller (Pastor)|Johannes Müller]], a Protestant theologian of Hamburg gives the time as April, and Amsterdam [[Remonstrants|Remonstrant]] preacher [[Philipp van Limborch]] adds that he set out to end the lives of both his brother (or nephew) and himself. Seeing his relative approach one day, he grabbed a pistol and pulled the trigger, but it misfired. Then he reached for another, turned it on himself, and fired, dying a reportedly terrible death.