Tractatus de apostasia

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7 JOHANNIS
WYCLIF CAP. VI.
It is therefore Et correspondenter indubie oportct dicere de nostra
doubtless that • •
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Christ made proposicione sacramentah quod Chnstus demonstrat
re
ir Boiy be panem, quem fecit corpus suum.
Blindness of Et talis cecitas contigit post ligacionem sathane mille
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the second -
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thousand years, annis pro tempore solucionis sue, de quibus Apok. XX. 5
concerninelhe ^>ro c l uo notan dum primo quod ligacio sathane ac eius
binding of solucio non erunt nisi restriccio et laxacio potestatis
Christi-A63"
which means sue ad temptandum et seducendum populum |
the less or
greater power anum. Secundo notandum est dictum spiritus sancti
he has to Apok. XX ubi dictt sathanam esse ligandum mille annis; 10
tempt men. , , , ,
et, post solvendum magnum populum, seducturum per
According to
Gog et Magog, de quibus Ezech. XXXVII. Sed tercio G.
notandum secundum Augustinum, 20 De civitate Dei, ca_
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pitulo g, pro intellectu prophecie Johannis, quod per illos
mille annos quibus ligatus est Sathanas, probabilius i5
intelligi potest sextus millenarius, in quo natus est
Augustine, the 'thousand
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Ghnstus
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Gonstat autem secundum cathohcos calculantes
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most pmbabh- 1 UO(^ fluxerunt quinque etates mundi terminate ad
the sixth Noe, Abraham, David, transmigracionem et Christum;
thousand, ..... . ....
when Christ et currebant in ilia etate quinque millia annorum; et 20
was born,
secundum varie calculantes hdeliter annuunt
amplius
He says that Christum natum in 6° millenario I etatis
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as Adam was . . . r ...
created and fell secundum Augustinum, ruit consonum, quia sicut in
t
°?t was i y ^a ':)" ca mun di m fitting
pnncipio primus Adam fuit 6 to die
that Christ creatus et perditus, ut patet Genes. I et III, sic secundus25
should come in . . • • '/-„ -i, i- r •
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millenario etatis mundi luit natus de
mundi. Quod, B 72''
the sixth age of Adam in b to
the world,
virgine, et per ipsum primus Adam cum genere suo
Christ,
est redemptus; ita quod millenarius annorum correspon-
the strong man
armed, took
possession of
the sixth age.
deat diei in prima seculi septimana. Christus igitur,
c .... ,....,
rortis armatus, pro suo millenario custodivit atrium 3o
domus sue; et ideo dicitur, Luc. XI : "Cum fortis ar- Luc -
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matus custodit atrium, in pace sunt omnia que possidet."
Licet enim sathan
modicum in 6
dissolutus sit ad tempus
to millenario,
occidendum Christum, sicut
movens membra
sexto die solutus
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sua ad
fuit ad A 63 b
temptandum primum parentem,
comodum domus Christi. Nee
hoc tamen fuit
sic seducti erant
ad
de H.
1. deberet CD. 5. 2 D. 7. relaxacio li. 18. quod deest CD;
ib. a pro ad B. 24. fabrice ACD ; in deest ACI). 3i. Dura ACD.
25. It was believed during the Middle Ages that Adam was
only 7 hours in Paradise. Cf. Dante, Paradise, XXVI, v. i3q
and seq. Can's note quotes Petrus Comestor: "Quidam tradunt
eos fuisse in Paradise septem lioras". 26. Aug. De Trinitate,
t. IV, c. 4. (t. 42, p. 892, of Migne).