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KEY Commentary Side Textual Bibliographic Scriptural
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M. Item that men shuld not worshepe
the holy crosse. T.
wyth no false worshepe and supersticious fayth
/ but as I haue said /
to haue it in reuerence for the memoriall of
him that died theron.
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not worshepe . . .
crosse. Cf. CWM 6/1.360/4.
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M. Item Luther hateth the festes of the crosse
and of corpus
Christi. T. not for enuy of the crosse whych
synned not in the deeth of Christ ner of malice towarde the
blessed body of christ but for the ydolatrye vsed in those
festes.
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festes of the
crosse. Cf. CWM 6/1.360/8–9. Roman Catholics celebrated "The
Finding of the Cross" on 3 May (dropped from the liturgical calendar in
1969) and "The Exaltation of the Cross" on 14 September.
corpus
Christi. Inspired in part by the formulation of
transubstantiation by Lateran IV in 1215, the Eucharist is
especially honored on the Thursday after Trinity Sunday. This
commemoration was extended to the Western'Church in 1264 by
Urban IV (pope, 1261–64), who requested Aquinas to compose a Mass and
Office. Celebrated in late spring, the feast is characterized by an
outdoor Eucharistic procession and mystery plays. In England, complete
cycles survive from York, Chester, Wakefield, and Ntown , with
the Chester cycle incorporating Aquinas' hymn Lauda
Sion. For an comprehensive study of the theological and
devotional texts, see Rubin passim.
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M. Item that no man or woman is bounde to kepe
any vowe. T.
lawfull vowes ar to be kepte vntyll necessite
breake them. But
vnlawfull vowes ar to be broken immediatly.
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no man . . .
vowe. Cf. CWM 6/1.360/10–11, 8/1.42/24–25.
On vows, Tyndale concisely states at 196/8–9
what is set forth more diffusely at 161/17–162/24 and 189/18–190/7.
(JW)
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M. Marten appelled vn to the nexte generall
counsell that shuld
be gathered in the holy gost / to seke a longe
delaye. T. of a trouth
that were a longe delaye. For shuld Marten liue
/ tyll the pope wold gather a counsell in the holy gost or
for any godly purpose / he were like to be for euery here
of his heed a thousand yeres olde.
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Marten . . . nexte
generall counsell. Cf. WA 2.36;WA 7.76. In Prelates (D2), Tyndale discusses in general terms power
struggles between pope and emperor over calling a council. During his
brief pontificate, Adrian VI (pope, 1522–23) was requested by the Diet
of Nuremberg to call a council in a German city within a year. In 1524, 1526, 1530,
and 1532 Charles V formally requested Clement
VII (pope, 1523–34) to convene a general council. In 1526 Charles even threatened to ask the cardinals to
convoke it. But Clement feared conciliarism and the power of the Empire
as demonstrated in the Sack of Rome (6–15 May
1527) by mutinous troops. Cf. Olivier de la Brosse et al., Latran V et Trente, Histoire des Conciles
Oecuméniques 10 (Paris: Editions de l'Orante,
1975) 165–84.
the pope ... a
counsell. On 2 June 1536, Paul III
(pope, 1534–49) summoned a council to be held at Mantua. Circumstances
prevented this from taking place, but a second bull of
convocation specified Trent as the venue in 1542. Finally,
the bull of 30 November 1544 was effective, and the Council of Trent
opened 13 December 1545, two months before Luther died on 18 February
1546. (JW)
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Then bryngeth he in the inconstauncie of Marten
/ because he saith in his later boke / how that he seith
further then in his firste. Paraduenture / he is kynne to
oure doctours whych when with preachynge agenst pluralities
they haue gotte them .iij. or .iiij. benefices / allege the
same excuse. But yet to saye the truth the very appostles
of Christ lerned not all trouth in one daye. For longe after the ascencion they wist not that the hethen shuld be receaued vn to
the faith. How then coude Marten (brought vppe in the
blyndnesse of youre secte aboue .xl. yeres) spie out all
youre falshed in one daye.
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inconstauncie of
Marten. Cf. CWM 6/1.362/14–16.
his later boke . .
. his firste. Cf. CWM 6/1.362/2–6. As a respectful
subject whose theological views differed from his sovereign 's, Tyndale avoids naming Henry VIII's Assertio (1521), which attacked Luther's Babylonian Captivity (1520) and evoked his Contra Henricum Regem Angliae (1522)
(WA 10/2.180–222; not in LW).
lerned not all
trouth in one daye. Tyndale has no further information to offer concerning Luther's development in the years from 1517 to
1522, and so he parries More's charges with ironical observations on the
delay in convening a council (186/11–14), on "disputations" staged by
inquisitors with their prisoners (186/ 28–187/3), and on the corrupt
judges appointed to the Luther case (187/4–10). Luther advanced
gradually, much like Jesus' apostles , to his grasp of
biblical truth and ecclesiastical falsehood, but then he showed biblical
grounds and had the backing of Christians everywhere
(186/19–24,187/10–12). (JW)
the hethen.
For the conversion of the Roman centurion Cornelius, cf. Acts
11.1–18.
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M. Marten offered at wormes before the emproure
and all the lordes of germanye / to aby
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