[176] Hoc est enim corpus meum, i. e. for this is my body.
[177] Albigenses says one writer.
[178] The Dominicans and Franciscans, though they seemed to be very simple and modest, were nevertheless the principal actors in this matter.
[179] Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out. Solom. S. 4:16.
[180] This great number of martyred Waldenses, through the carelessness of some writers, has been mingled under the mire of certain erring persons, from whence we have drawn them forth again, though not without labor. An ancient writer says: “I seek pearls in the mire.”
[181] Wilhelmina.
[182] Hence, when Wickliffe rejects the swearing of oaths in civil or human contracts, he rejects all swearing of all oaths that have ever been in question; for not the promises which are made to God, but the oaths that are sworn to men, have been from ancient times, and are still, the matter in question.
[183] This article has direct reference to the words which Paul wrote to the believing Romans: “Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?” Rom. 6:3.
[184] Others say, on Easter.
[185] Others say, a Monocholite.