[112] An obscure allegorical reference to the Babylonian captivity of the Jews. "The people of the captivity" (comp. Ps. 64:1 and 1 Kings 24:14, Vulgate) are the better portion of the people who were carried captive, together with their possessions, to Babylon; "the people of the earth," _am haarez_, the common people, were left behind and became the nucleus of the hybrid Samaritan nation. [113] See above, p. 123. [114] See above, p. 75. [115] See _Decretal. Greg., lib. Ill, tit. xxxiv, cap. 7_. [116] Cf. Köhler, _Luther und die KG._, pp. 222 ff. [117] Comp. below, p. 248. [118] This time came during Luther's sojourn at the Wartburg, when he wrote _De votis monasticis_, 1521. See Vol. IV. [119] The XCV Theses, the _Resolutiones_, the _Sermon von Ablass und Gnade_, the _Confitendi Ratio_; the first and last of these in Vol. I. [120] Reference to a probably spurious bull of Clement VI. In his _Grund u. Ursach aller Artikel D. Martin Luthers, so durch röm. Bulle unrechtlich verdammt sind_ (1521), Luther writes: "Thus it happened in the days of John Hus that the pope commanded the angels of heaven to conduct to heaven the souls of the Roman pilgrims who died en route. Against this dreadful blasphemy and more than devilish presumption Hus raised his voice, and though he lost his life therefor, yet forced the pope to pipe a different tune and in future to refrain from such blasphemy."--Compare Köhler, _Luther u. die Kirchengeschichte_, p. 206. See also above, p. 81. [121] _Longe viliorem_; the _Jena Ed._, followed by Lemme and Kawerau, reads, _longe meliorem_. [122] Comp. Vol. I, p. 20. [123] Comp. Vol. I, p. 86. [124] See above, pp. 105 f. [125] See above, p. 105, note 4. [126] See above, p. 223, note 1, [127] See above, p. 245, note 2. [128] A play on the word _observantia_, which means both observation and observance. A scriptural fling at the _Observantines_. Comp. above, p. 172, note 4. [129] Luther quotes correctly, _confortatus_, but thinks _confirmatus_. [130] Vulgate: _confirmet_. [131] Above, pp. 203 f. [132] Vulgate: _sacramenta_. [133] Erasmus edited the first published Greek New Testament in March, 1516 (Basle: John Froben), the Complutensian Polyglot being the first printed edition (1514). Luther used Erasmus' work as soon as it came out, as may be seen in his lectures on Romans, 1515-16 (cf. Picker, _Luthers Vorlesung über den Romerbrie_; also Preserved Smith, _Luther's Correspondence_, etc., I, nos. 21 and 65). In an interesting letter to Luther of Feb. 14, 1519, Froben announces the second edition of Erasmus' New Testament, which Luther used in making his translation. Cf. Smith, op. cit., 00.125. [134] See above, p. 177. [135] Namely, for Paul. [136] The precise meaning is not clear. The Latin is: _vel proprio spiritu vel general! sententia_. [137] Here follows a passage that clearly breaks into the context and belongs elsewhere. See Introduction, p. 169.