[26] The Treatise on the Blessed Sacrament, 1519.
[27] See page 174.
[28] See above, p. 10, note 1.
[29] Decretal. Greg., lib. Ill, tit. xli, cap. 17.
[30] Migne, XLIV, 699 f.
[31] Verklärung etlicher Artikel, 1520. Weimer Ed., VI, 80 11 ff.
[32] An allusion to his opponents' doctrine of the complete freedom of the will, which Luther denied. Compare his De servo arbitrio (1525). Weimar Ed., XVIII, 600 ff. He finds in their treatment of Scripture and of logic a practical expression of this doctrine of theirs.
[33] Luther humbly identifies himself with the erring priesthood,
[34] Alveld.
[35] The res sacramenti. The sacrament consisted of these two parts—(1) the sacramentum, or external sign, and (2) the res sacramenti, or the thing signified, the sacramental grace. Another distinction is that between (1) materia, or the external sign, and (2) forma, or the words of institution or administration. See below, p. 223.