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ft93 In the Uslegung (I. 352 sq.) he explains Rom. 13:1: “Let every soul be
subject unto the higher powers.” “Every soul,” he says, “means every
living man, and includes popes, bishops, priests, monks and nuns.
Every power is from God; consequently, also, a bad magistracy, with
which God punishes our sins (Isa. 3:4). Then we must also obey the
pope, even a bad one, because he is set over us by God for punishment.
This I believe firmly, but I believe also that God will lead us out of this
captivity, as he led Israel out of Egypt through his servant Moses.”
ft94 “Pfui der Schande,” is added in the German text. In the Swiss dialect,
“Pfuch der Schand!” (I. A. 156). In the defence of this article (I. 378
sq.), Zwingli strongly illustrates the evil effects of the lewd life of the
unmarried clergy upon the morals of the laity. “It is easy,” he says, “to
command chastity; but no one is able to keep it without the grace of
God.” Concerning his own case, See § 7, p. 27.
ft95 An unofficial report of the disputation was published by Hegenwald,
March 3, 1523 (Werke, I. A. 106-168). Faber issued, March 10, a
counter-report. Seven Zurichers replied to him in, “Das Gyrenrupfen”
(Geyerrupfen), 1523, and charged him with lying and claiming the
speeches of others. Salat’s Historische Nachricht of the deputation is a
“parteiische Verstümmelung und Entstellung” of Hegenwald’s report,
and hence of no historical value (Schuler and Schulthess, in their ed. of
Zw. I. 109). Comp. Aug. Baur, Die erste Zürcher Disputation, Halle,
1883.
ft96 Egli, 114 sq.; Bullinger, I. 103.
ft97 Werke, I. A. 169-425.
ft98 Füssli, II. 33-39; Egli, 176, 178.
ft99 The only German report of the second disputation, in Werke, I. A. 459-
540 (Comp. Bullinger, I. 131 sqq.), is from the pen of Ludwig Hetzer,
chaplain at Wädenschweil, then priest at Zurich, an ardent friend of the
Reformation, who afterwards joined the Anabaptists, and was
beheaded at Constance. Gwalter made an abridged Latin translation in
Zw. Opera, II. 623-646. Zwingli took the ground that a truly Christian
congregation was a better church than all the bishops and popes, and
had as good a right to settle religious controversies as a council, where
the Word of God was not allowed to decide.”Ja, Höngg und
Küssnacht ist ein gewüssere Kilch denn all züsammen gerottet bishof
und päpst.” Werke, I. 472.