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[156] _Impedimentum ordinis_

[157] _Impedimentum publicae honestatis_

[158] An untranslatable pun: _non iustitia sed inscitia_

[159] Page 244

[160] See p 263, note 2

[161] Page 242

[162] The following points need to be borne in mind in order to a fair evaluation of this iven is in the nature of advice to confessors, and the one guiding principle is the relief of souls in peril (2) It otten that Luther wrote the treatise in Latin, and not for the general public

There is without doubt a certain betrayal in turning into the vernacular a passage written in the language of the learned Yet we have done this, being unwilling to all under the charge of giving a garbled version (3) The hindrance Luther is here discussing was one recognized and provided or by the Church of Roested by him was prescribed by the German _Volksrecht_ in many localities (4) Divorce was absolutely forbidden (5) Luther's error grew out of an unhistorical interpretation of the Old Testa the importance of the public law ”To make the individual conscience the sole arbiter in erous consequences” (See Kawarau, _Berlin Ed_, II, 482 f, where references are given)

[163] As he actually did in the case of Henry VIII and Philip of Hesse

[164] See above, p 269, note 1

[165] Page 271

[166] An allusion to the act that what he is writing is a ”Prelude”

See Introduction, p 168

[167] _Contra epistolane, XLII, 176) Cf

below, p 451

[168] _De trinitate_, 9, 6, 10 (Migne, VIII, 966)

[169] See below, pp 451 ff

[170] The council that condemned and burned John Hus (1414-1418)

[171] Dionysius Areopagita, the pseudonym (cf Acts 17:54) of the unknown author (about 500, in Syria?) of the neoplatonic writings, _Of the Celestial_, and _Of the Ecclesiastical Hierarchy_, etc

[172] William Durandus the elder, died 1296

[173] The Franciscan Bonaventura (1274) in his _De reductione artiuiara_

[174] Donatus (ab 350 AD), a farammarian, whose _Ars minor_ was a favorite mediaeval text-book The chancellor of the University of Paris, John Gerson ( 1429), published a _Donatus rammar, in which the noun was compared to man, the pronoun to man's sinful state, the verb to the divine command to love, the _adverb_ to the fulfilment of the divine law, etc