John Wyclif's De Veritate Sacrae Scripturae: Now First Edited From The Manuscripts With Critical And Historical Notes

JOHN WYCLIFS IjE VERITATE SACRAI C - FIRST EDITED 0 THE ILSLCII. V1 IH CK 1TICIL r4SI H I S1OR IC-AL, SOI-ES ICUDOLF BUDDENSIEG l . I . IHII.. TRAC TA TUS DE VERI TA TE SACRAE SCRIPTURAE CAP1 TULUX VICES IAUAV Q UINTUAII. f0l.8od I1 Ex istis colligi potest sentencia, quam sepe in- Theright of lhe 5 serui, licet sit mundo odibilis, scilicet, quod licet laicis .yte in casu tam subtrahere quam auferre bona ecclesie a suis prepositis. 4 BC in marg. Nota Aa in marg. super. fol, 82d Quod a clero delinquente possunt subtrahi vel auferri temporalia per totum infra 4 quam sepe inserui ad hanc opinionen de dominio JWin libris ante hzrnc scriptis frequenter redit, cf. De Dorn. Civ. I ed. R. Lane Poole cap. X X W jag-. 266 sq. ibid. IIed Lose cap. Xllpag. 127 sqq. r36 De Blasphemia ed. Dziewickl cap. V1 jag. 81. item de ablafione temporalizrm a clero delinqzienie saepissime in libr. suis dispzitat, c ea, qziae R. Lane Poole de hac re profevt De Dom. Civ. I cap. XXXVII nota 29 Wyclzxe here opens as a corollary to fornzer statemetzts what was dozibiless one of the principal objects he had in writing the book De Donz. Civ., namely the asserfion of the rights of the civil state over the property of the Church, in the case of the latter misusing her tmst. He recurs to it frequent in the sequel. The passionate energy of the . . . . . present chapter . . . . . shows eloquently the vital importance which JW attached to the doctrine MOW annozcnced and his almost defiant consciozrsness of the opposition to which its avowal would necessarily ex- W y c l i f, De Veritate Sacrae Scripturae. 1x1. l 3 JOHAA7A71S TV YCL IF Cop. XXV Thr rrotior et voco prepositos quoscunque, qui debent iuvare suos subditosspirituali suffragio propter elemosinam corporalem, ut patet de episcopis et clericis cum quibuscunque religiosis elemosinariis, qui ea intencione recipiunt a laicis bona ecclesie. licet autem necessario omnia 5 bona mundi sint bona ecclesie, cum iusti sunt omnia, tamen suppono propter famositatem et pertinenciam, quod per bona ecclesie intelliguntur bona fortune donata ecclesie sive in perpetuam elemosinam sive in elemosinam temporalem. ro et specific0 casum quandocunque prepositus est in 7 . 2 mbttali notorio subiecto, qui sibi elemosinam ministraret, et tunc probo conclusionem prim0 de subtracciole elemosine, posito, quod sciatur notorie, quod prepositus sit fornicator vel alio notorio crimine irretitus. 15 o the d object lam subiectus non tenetur, dare suo preposito bona oj clarch propg ecclesie, nisi ut ministret sibi et aliis subditis sue hrepo- siture secundum formarn apostolicam supradictam. sed ab hoc deficit notorie, igitur a causa, propter quam bona huiusmodi vendicaret. O maior patet ex comuni prilcipio decretistarum non datur beneficium nisi propter officium. et minor patet ex casu, cunl oportet, ministrum liuiusmodi esse 8 donatata exptrncto ta iiz exitrr zrocis A 11 preposi- tus AD prelatus C onz. BC 12 notorie codd. - 14 posite pote BC 15 Ba in tirat-g. error A in marg. prima racio pose Iriitr. Yet it is to be obset-ved how carefrrlly he griads ngaiusf nizy pi-eseizt applicatioir of it, srrch belottgitrg . . . . to the fzrirctioir of tire statesnzen, not to tlrat of the ttreologinn cf. idem jag. 270 posito per possibile, qiod expediat cletzrtt per sribtracciotem iizvitain temporaliriin cnstigat-i, Izoc pritzcrbalifer spectat ad regis officirrnr. trec rotare oitilto, proposifiorrunz undeviginti a papa brrlLis qrrirque .daiitzatat-unz nntro 1377 Irairc fzrisse pi-aecipmin scxia et sejtiian deciina, cf. Buddeizsieg, Studien zti Wiclif iii Zeitschrzyf J d. Izistoriscze Tlleol. 1875, 1V 16 page 5337534 6 Iris verbis JW Azrgustini seirtentianz de dontztrro rain facit, cf. Azrgust. Opp. 11 696 18 cf. srrpra 11 jag. 183 sqq. 22 zrbi locoruin rot principiutr decretistanrtn exstet harrd scio cnp...