149. Passage in Luther.
—In Luther's Responsio ad librum Ambrosii Catharini, where he attacks the confessional, he says:
"Cogit etiam papa peccata suarum legum confiteri—ad hæc tot peccatorum differentiis, speciebus, generibus, filiabus, nepotibus, ramis, circumstantiis," &c.
Were these expressions merely jocular, or have any papal canonists or casuists given the title of filiæ, nepotes or rami to offences deducible from the same root?
H. W.
150. Linteamina and Surplices.
—What is the meaning of linteamina to be met with in the writings of ecclesiologists of a past age, and in the canonists?
At what date did the surplice first become an ecclesiastical vestment, and what are the differences discernible in the surplices of the Greek, Latin, and English churches?
J. Y.