[107] For a full discussion of this "baptism," see Scheel, in the Berlin Edition of Luther's works, Ergänzungsband II, pp. 134-157.
[108] See above, p. 238.
[109] The threefold vow of the mendicant orders.
[110] Bulla means both a papal bull and a bubble.
[111] Compare above, p. 172, note 4.
[112] An obscure allegorical reference to the Babylonian captivity of the Jews. "The people of the captivity" (comp. Ps. 64:1 and 1 Kings 24:14, Vulgate) are the better portion of the people who were carried captive, together with their possessions, to Babylon; "the people of the earth," am haarez, the common people, were left behind and became the nucleus of the hybrid Samaritan nation.
[113] See above, p. 123.
[114] See above, p. 75.
[115] See Decretal. Greg., lib. Ill, tit. xxxiv, cap. 7.
[116] Cf. Köhler, Luther und die KG., pp. 222 ff.