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KEY Commentary Side Textual Bibliographic Scriptural
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couenauntes / ordinaunces and decrees of men / & knoweth
the office
of euery degre and the due honoure of euery person. And he that
hath not that written in his herte is popish and of
the spiritualtie which vnderstondeth nothynge saue his awne
honoure his awne profit and what is good for him selfe only: and
when he is as he wold
be / thinketh that al the world is as it shuld
be.
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can iudge . . .
person.
Confutation quotes Tyndale's discussion of true love of neighbor nearly verbatim, cf. CWM 8/2.775/15–18.
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¶Of worshepinge and what is to be vnderstonde by the
worde
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Concerninge worshepinge or honouringe (which .ij. termes are both one) M. More bringeth forth a difference / a distinccion or
diuision of greke wordes / fayned of oure scolemen which of
late nether vnderstode greke / latine or hebrue / called dulia
/ yperdulia and latria. But the difference declareth he not ner
the propirties of the wordes / but with confused termes leadeth
you blindfold in his mase.
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Worshipping and honouring are both one.[[1573]
dulia / yperdulia and
latria. For Aquinas, dulia is rendered
to a human being who participates in some limited way in God's power and
dignity; hyperdulia is the highest species of dulia, being the veneration of Mary in virtue of
the special affinity to God that is her divine motherhood; latria is the veneration due to God in virtue of
his supreme dominion (Summa II—II, Q. 103, Art.
3–4). This systematic analysis was cited by 15c English defenders of
devotional images and the veneration of the saints against
Lollard attacks. Cf.W.R. Jones, "Lollards and Images: the
Defense of Religious Art in Later Medieval England ''Journal of the History of Ideas 34 (1973)
27–50, esp. 44f. More defines these three grades of worship
by giving dulia to living superiors, hyperdulia to angels and saints as well as to
Mary, and latria to God alone (CWM 6/1.97/28–33).
He brands the charge that people mistakenly offer latria to saints as a cloak for the heresy of refusing any
role to the saints in Christian devotion (CWM 6/1.230/1–232/36). For
More's comment on the rejection of scholastic distinctions by
Luther and Tyndale, cf. CWM 8/2.741/32–34,91/31, 123/28, 124/4.
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