Works of Martin Luther, with Introductions and Notes (Volume II)

by Martin Luther

[36] Cf. Weimar Ed., VI, 505, note 1.

[37] Cf. Vol. I, p. 325, and Realencyklopädie, X, 289, pp. 11 ff.

[38] Cf. Weimar Ed., VI, 506, note 2.

[39] Cf. W. Kohler, Luther unci die Kirchengeschichte (Erlangen, 1900), chap. viii.

[40] On the spiritual reception of the sacrament see H. Hering, Die Mystik Luthers (1879), pp. 173 f. Cf. above, p. 40.

[41] See above, p. 172.

[42] John Wyclif (†1384), the keenest of the mediæval critics of the doctrine of transubstantiation.

[43] Pierre d'Ailly (†1425), who, with his master Occam, greatly influenced Luther.

[44] The Sentences of Peter Lombard, the text-book of medieval theology.

[45] In the dogma of transubstantiation (Fourth Lateran Council, 1215) the Church taught that the substance of bread and wine was changed into the substance of Christ's body and blood, while the accidents of the former—i. e., their attributes, such as form, color, taste, etc.—remained.