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KEY Commentary Side Textual Bibliographic Scriptural
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So now the church of god is dowble / a
fleshly and a spirituall
: the one wilbe and is not: the other is and
maye not be so called / but must be called a lutheran / an
heretike and soch like. Vnderstonde therfore / that god
when he calleth a congregacion vn to his name / sendeth
forth his mesingers to cal generally. Which mesingers
bringe in a greate multitude amased & astonied with miracles and power of the reasons which the preachers make / and
ther with be compelled to confesse that there is but one
god of power and might a boue all and that Christ is god
and man and borne of a virgin and a thousand other thinges.
And then the greate multitude that is called and not chosen
/ when they haue gotten this faith comune as well to the
deuels as them and moare strongly persuaded vnto the deuels
then vn to them / then they goo vn to their awne imaginacions sayenge: we maye no lenger serue Idoles / but god that is but one. And the maner of seruice they fett out of their awne
braynes and not of the word of god / and serue god with
bodily seruice as they did in times past their Idoles /
their hertes seruynge their awne
lustes still. And one will serue him in white /
another in blacke / a
nother in greye and a nother in pied. And a
nother to doo god a pleasure with all / wilbe sure / that
his showe shal haue .ij. or . iij. good thicke soles vnder
and will cut him aboue / so that in somer while the wether
is whott / thou maist se his bare fote and in winter his
socke. They wilbe shorn and shauen and Saduces: that is to saye /
rightewes / and phareses / that is / seperated in facions
from all wother men. Ye and they will consecrat them selues
all to gether vn to god and will annoynte their handes
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faith comune as
well to the deuels. Cf. Jas. 2.19.
Saduces. From
Zadoc ("righteous"), high priest in the time of Solomon, cf. 1 Kings
1.39, or from Tzaddikim ("righteous men"). They
denied the resurrection of the dead, the existence of angels and
spirits, and the obligation of the unwritten law allegedly
handed down from Moses.
phareses / that is /
seperated. From perushim ("those who are
separated") or perishut ("those who sanctify").
They were distinguished by their strict observance of the
traditional and written law and by their claims to superior sanctity.
For "Sadducees" and "Pharisees," cf. Illustrated
Dictionary and Concordance of the Bible, gen. ed. Geoffrey
Wigoder (New York: Macmillan, 1986).
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