[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.