arbara, a legendary saint, whose day falls on December
4, was thought to protect against storm and fire. See above, p.
237. St. Sebastian, a martyr of the third century, whose day
falls on January 20, was supposed to ward off the plague.

[35] Cf. The _Fourteen of Consolation_, above, p. 162.

[36] Page 194 f.

[37] I. e., by fear without love.

[38] The patron saint of music, of whose life and martyrdom
little that is definite is known.

[39] Canonisations, giving a dead man the rank of a saint, who
may be or shall be worshiped.

[40] I.e., faith.

[41] Cf. the similar statements in the _Sermon vom Wucher_
(_Weimar Ed._, VI, 59) and in the _Address to the Christian
Nobility_ (ibid., 438).

[42] A name for the dependents of the papal court at Rome.

[43] At Constance, 1414-1443; at Rome, the Lateran council,
1512-1517.

[44] Or, "Who is said to rule the councils."

[45] This program of reform is further elaborated in the _Address
to the Christian Nobility_.

[46] Augustus Caesar, first Roman Emperor (B.C. 63-A.D. 14), the
Caesar Augustus of Luke 2:1.

[47] "The purchase of a rent-charge (_rent, census, Zins_) was
one of the methods of investing money frequently resorted to
during the later middle ages. From the transfer from one person
to another of the right to receive a rent already due the step
was but a short one to the creation of an altogether new
rent-charge, for the express purpose of raising money by the sale
of it...The practice seems to have arisen spontaneously, and to
have been by no means a mere evasion of the prohibition of
usury." _Dictionary of Political Economy_, ed. by R. H. Inglish
Palgrave, vol. ii. Cf. Ashley, _Economic History_, vol. i, p.t.
ii, sections 66, 74, 75. For a fuller discussion of the subject by
Luther, see the _Sermon vom Wucher_ (_Weimar Ed._, VI, 51-60).

[48] See note above, p. 220.

[49] _Sorgfaitigkeit_, Luther's translation of the Vulgate
_solicitndo_ in Rom. 12:8, where our English Version reads
"diligence." The word as Luther uses it includes the two kinds of
carefulness and considerateness.

[50] A most strict monastic order; the phrase here is equivalent
to "becomes a monk."

[51] _Sanftmuthlgkeit_.

[52] Luther discusses these tricks in detail in his _Sermon von
Kaufhandlung und Wucher_ (1524) _Weimar Ed._, XV, pp. 279 ff.

[53] _Sermon von dem Wucher, Weimar Ed._, VI, 36 ff. Cf. also
_Address to the German Nobility_.

[54] Cf. _The Fourteen of