Editing Baruch Spinoza (section)

====The Hague====
[[File: Spinoza House, The Hague (2016) 01.png|thumb|Spinoza's house in The Hague, where he died]]
In 1670, Spinoza moved to [[The Hague]] to have easier access to the city's intellectual life and to be closer to his friends and followers.{{sfn|Nadler|2018|p=334}} As he became more famous, Spinoza spent time receiving visitors and responding to letters. He returned to the manuscript of&nbsp;''Ethics'', reworking part Three into parts Four and Five, and composed a Hebrew grammar for proper interpretation of scripture and for clearing up confusion and problems when studying the Bible, with part One presenting etymology, the alphabet, and principles governing nouns, verbs, and more. Part Two, unfinished before he died, would have presented syntax rules.{{sfn|Nadler|2018|pp=375-79}} Another unfinished work from 1676 was ''[[Tractatus Politicus]]'', which concerns how states can function well and intended to show that democratic states are best.{{sfn|Nadler|2018|p=399}} Spinoza refused an offer to be the chair of philosophy at the [[University of Heidelberg]], perhaps because of the possibility that it might curb his [[freedom of thought]].{{sfn|Nadler|2018|p=363}}