fall to the ground Aristotle, the Scholastics, as Thomas, Scotus, Bonaventura and Occam, and all teachers who in their origin are not from God.
"12. The hour is coming and is already here, in which no one will be considered a priest but he who preaches the word of God. Thereby fall the sayers of early mass, suffragists, requiemists, sayers of intercessory masses.
"13. It is the duty of church-members, to whom the pure word of God is clearly preached, to provide food and clothing for the ministers. Thereby go to the ground the courtiers, pensioners, incorporators, absentees, liars and dream-babblers.
"14, Whoso seeks purgatory, the trust of those whose god is the belly, seeks the grave of Moses—it will never be found.
"15. To forbid priests to marry and wink at their carnal lewdness is to release Barabbas and put Christ to death.
"16. To promise chastity in the strength of man is nothing else than to fly over the sea without wings.
"17. Whoso for worldly advantage denies or remains silent concerning the word of God, sells the blessing of God, as Esau sold his birthright, and will also be denied by Christ.
"18. Whoso does not earn his bread by the sweat of his brow is in condemnation, [and] is not worthy of the food that he eats. Herewith are all idlers condemned, whoever they may be."
Although the title-page of the four-page pamphlet in which these theses appeared informs us that
