[3] Luther habitually quoted the Vulgate and quoted from memory; hence the many variations from the familiar test of Scripture.
[4] See above, p. 58.
[5] See above, p. 57.
[6] See above, p. 57.
[7] Good works prescribed as "penances" upon confession to the priest.
[8] Literally, "lifted up out of it." See above, p. 57, note 1.
[9] See above, p.58.
[10] Luther here refers to his Treatise on the Sacrament of Penance, which was published just before the present treatise on baptism, in 1519. See Weimar Ed., II, pp. 709 ff and p. 724.
[11] The power to forgive and retain sin, belonging, according to Roman teaching, to the priest, and normally exercised in the sacrament of penance.
[12] Cf. Fourteen of Consolation, Part II, ch. II; below, pp. 146 ff.