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[33] i. e., The sign of the cross.
[34] As much as, "We are in for a bad hour," and, "A good hour is
worth a bad hour."
[35] See p. 134.
[36] In this passage "Wisdom" is the subject.
[37] In the Sanctus.
[38] See p. 118.
[39] Luther quotes a verse from Ps. 106, which sums up the
contents of Ps. 78.
[40] Luther uses sensualitas the first time, and sensus the
second.
[41] See p.115.
[42] The Confessions of St. Augustine, Book IX, chapter 1.
[43] Luther is probably thinking of the sin of suicide.
[44] From the Vulgate (Douay Version).
[45] Namely, the hope of the passing evil and the coming of good
things. See above.
[46] The last two passages read thus in the Vulgate.
[47] See p. 122.
[48] Cf. p. 127, note.
[49] Thus the Vulgate.
[50] Ovid, Ars amat., I, 656.
[51] Cf. Treatise on Baptism, above, p. 66.
[52] See pp. 123 ff.
[53] The Confessions of St. Augustine, Book I, chap. vi.
[54] Thus the Vulgate.
[55] Comm. in Ps. xxxix, No. 27.
[56] Book VIII, chap. xi.
[57] See p. 152.
[58] See pp. 126 ff.
[59] See pp. 126 ff.
[60] Gregor. dialogorum libri iv, containing number of examples
of the terrible end of the wicked.
[61] One of the passages Luther did not care to correct. Compare
p. 127, note.
[62] Luther here unites the mythological figures of chimaera and
alren.
[63] An Italian saint whose festival is observed on February 5th,
whose worship flourishes especially in South Italy and Sicily,
and whose historical existence is doubtful.
[64] See pp. 133 ff.
[65] Luther has mistaken the chapter.
[66] For the various interpretations of the "communion of the
saints" among mediæval theologians, See Reinh. Seeberg, Lehrbuch
der Dogmengeschichte, 1st ed., vol. ii, p.127, note. Luther in
the Sermon von dem hochwürdigen Sacrament des heiligen wahren
Leichnams Christi (1519), still accepts the phrase as meaning
the participation in the Sacrament, and through it the
participation in "the spiritual possessions of Christ and His
saints." In our treatise, it is taken as the definition of "the
holy Catholic Church," in the sense of a communion with the
saints. In The Papacy at Rome (later in the same year), it
becomes the communion or community (consisting of saints, or
believers; as a Gemeinde oder Sammlung. Compare the classical
passage in the Large Catechism (1529): "nicht Gemenschaft,
sondern Gemeine."
[67] See A Discussion of Confession, above, p. 88.
[68] Changed to "Christian" in the Catechisms (1529), although
the Latin translations retain catholocism.
[69] The Apostle does not say, "one cup."
[70] The translation here follows the reading of the Jena Ed.
(huc feratur intuitus), as against that of the Weimar and
Erl. Edd. (huc foratur intutus).
[71] Thus the Vulgate.
[72] See pp. 137 ff.
[73] Vulgate.
[74] Namely, after His resurrection.
[75] Compare the different form of this verse on p. 112.
[76] He means the sin of Adam.
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