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and Antichrist.

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and Antichrist.

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The pope has chosen war and court.

Antichrist.

We dissolve all the oaths which the clergy have sworn to imprison, and command that their goods be protected not only with the spiritual but also with the temporal sword, until they have their stolen goods again, 1propter defectum scientiae And he who dies or perishes in this war shall attain eternal life, 23. 23. sq. 5. c. Omnium et q. 8. c. Omni (I, 823). This means to be sure of one's goods, so that it is considered good even if Christian blood is spilled over them.