 However, whilst staying in Dillingen he met Johann Albrecht Widmanstetter, then chancellor of the Austrian lands.Both sharing the same goals of printing a Syriac copy of the New Testament, Widmanstetter travelled with Moses to Vienna where they convinced Ferdinand I to fund their project.Thus one thousand copies of the Syriac version of the New Testament was printed in 1555 and Moses himself received half of which to distribute in the East.