eath of the body; which for this reason is
profitable and a thing to be desired.[54] To this may God help
us. Amen.

FOOTNOTES

[1] Col. 3:17. See above p. 25, note 1.

[2] The _Tessaradecas consolatoria_, printed in the present
volume, pp. 109-171.

[3] Sexternlein.

[4] Questions debated in the schools.

[5] Here "the Faith" means the Creed, as a statement of faith.

[6] I.e., In faith.

[7] A quality, state or condition, independent of works.

[8] _St. Jacob di Compostella_, a place in Spain, where the
Apostle James, the son of Zebedee, who was killed in Jerusalem
(Acts 12:2), is in Spanish tradition said to have died a martyr's
death; since the Ninth Century a noted and much frequented goal
of pilgrimages. The name Compostella is a corruption of _Giacomo
Postolo_, that is "James the Apostle."

[9] St. Bridget of Ireland, who died in 523, was considered a
second Virgin Mary, the "Mary of the Irish." Perhaps here
confused with another Bridget, or Brigita, who died 1373, a
Scottish saint, who wrote several prayers, printed for the first
time in 1492 and translated into almost all European languages.

[10] I.e., by us men.

[11] This translation indicates the imperfection of the German
form of Bible quotation throughout this treatise.

[12] Page 190.

[13] Page 190.

[14] A _Jarmarkt_; the reference here being to the bargaining
common at such fairs.

[15] The theme developed in the treatise _De Libertate_, 1520.

[16] Page 190.

[17] A gold coin, the value of which is very uncertain. It was an
adaptation of the _florin_, which was first coined in Florence in
the year 1252, and was worth about $2.50. Of the value of the
gold _gulden_ of Luther's time various estimates are given.
Schaff, _Church History_, 3 vi., p. 470, calls it a _guilder_ and
says it was equal to about $4.00 of the present day. Preserved
Smith, _Life of Luther_, p. 367, fixes its intrinsic value at
about fifty cents, but believes its purchasing power was almost
twenty times as great. To us a gold piece worth fifty cents seems
almost impossible; but the _New English Dictionary_ quotes, under
the year 1611: "Florin or Franc: an ancient coin of gold in
France, worth ij s. sterling." As the gold coins of those times
were not made of pure gold, rarely 17 carats fine, the
possibility may be granted. But in 1617, the _Dictionary_ quotes
"The Gold Rehnish Guldens of Germany are almost of the same
standard as the Crowne Gold of Englan