FOOTNOTES
[1] In the preceding treatise on the Blessed Sacrament.
[2] See above, p. 10.
[3] See above, p. 18.
[4] I. e., the necessaries of life.
[5] E. g., the crusades against heretics, and the inquisition of the thirteenth century. Luther's statement that to burn heretics is contrary to the will of the Holy Spirit was condemned in the Bull Exsurge Domine, of July 15, 1520.
[6] Cf. p. 53.
[7] Cf. p. 10.
[8] See Vol. I, pp. 53, 163 ff.
[9] The officials were officers of the bishops' courts; see also below, p. 103.
[10] In Vito, lib. V, tit. xi, c. I,Cum medicinalis.
[11] According to Luther's interpretation of 1 Cor. 5:5. Cf. also Acts 5:5.
[12] The passage quoted from the canon law.
[13] For instances see the Gravamina of the German Nation (1521), Wrede, Deutsche Reichstagsakten, II, 685.
[14] Thiele, Luthers Sprichwörtersammlung, No. 276.
[15] I. e., a cleric.
[16] This statement also was condemned in the papal bull.
[17] The "officials" were the administrators of this discipline, see above, p. 41.
[18] A very important limitation for Luther's position.
[19] See Open Letter to the Nobility, below, p. 98.
[20] Again an important limitation.
[21] See above, p. 41.
[22] The ashes of Hus were cast into the Rhine (1415), and the body of Wycliff was exhumed and cremated and the ashes cast into the water (1427).
[23] See above, p. 42.
[24] In 1518 both George and Frederick of Saxony took the position that spiritual jurisdiction should be limited to spiritual matters. Gess, Akten und Briefe zur Kirchen politik Georgs 1, 44.
[25] Luther puts a peculiar construction upon this passage.
[26] The ancient service was divided into the service of the Word (missa catechumenorum) and the celebration of the sacrament (missa fidelium); before the second, those under the ban as well as the catechumens were required to withdraw.
[27] The "great ban" excluded from all services.
[28] According to Roman Catholic usage there is a distinction between hearing mass and receiving the sacrament.
[29] Compare Treatise Concerning the Blessed Sacrament, above, p. 25.