[29] The prayer-book and the rosary. The Breviary, a collection of prayers, was used by the clergy; the Rosary, the beads of which represent prayers, the smaller and more numerous Ave Marias, the larger of the Lord's Prayer, Paternoster, was the layman's prayer book. [30] Cf. Introduction to The Fourteen of Consolation, p. 106. [31] See note, p. 191. [32] The German, Oelgötzen, means the wooden images of saints, which were painted with oil paints. It was transferred to any dull person, block-head, sometimes also to priests, who were anointed with oil at their consecration. [33] Sinnlichkeit. [34] St. Barbara, a legendary saint, whose day falls on December 4, was thought to protect against storm and fire. See above, p. 237. St. Sebastian, a martyr of the third century, whose day falls on January 20, was supposed to ward off the plague. [35] Cf. The Fourteen of Consolation, above, p. 162. [36] Page 194 f. [37] I. e., by fear without love. [38] The patron saint of music, of whose life and martyrdom little that is definite is known. [39] Canonisations, giving a dead man the rank of a saint, who may be or shall be worshiped. [40] I.e., faith. [41] Cf. the similar statements in the Sermon vom Wucher (Weimar Ed., VI, 59) and in the Address to the Christian Nobility (ibid., 438). [42] A name for the dependents of the papal court at Rome. [43] At Constance, 1414-1443; at Rome, the Lateran council, 1512-1517. [44] Or, "Who is said to rule the councils." [45] This program of reform is further elaborated in the Address to the Christian Nobility. [46] Augustus Caesar, first Roman Emperor (B.C. 63-A.D. 14), the Caesar Augustus of Luke 2:1. [47] "The purchase of a rent-charge (rent, census, Zins) was one of the methods of investing money frequently resorted to during the later middle ages. From the transfer from one person to another of the right to receive a rent already due the step was but a short one to the creation of an altogether new rent-charge, for the express purpose of raising money by the sale of it…The practice seems to have arisen spontaneously, and to have been by no means a mere evasion of the prohibition of usury." Dictionary of Political Economy, ed. by R. H. Inglish Palgrave, vol. ii. Cf. Ashley, Economic History, vol. i, p.t. ii, §§ 66, 74, 75. For a fuller discussion of the subject by Luther, see the Sermon vom Wucher (Weimar Ed., VI, 51-60). [48] See note above, p. 220. [49] Sorgfäitigkeit, Luther's translation of the Vulgate solicitndo in Rom. 12:8, where our English Version reads "diligence." The word as Luther uses it includes the two kinds of carefulness and considerateness. [50] A most strict monastic order; the phrase here is equivalent to "becomes a monk." [51] Sanftmüthlgkeit. [52] Luther discusses these tricks in detail in his Sermon von Kaufhandlung und Wucher (1524) Weimar Ed., XV, pp. 279 ff.