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 translato de constitutionibus,^ where the gloss to the word translato expounds it to apply to Peter by those words, "Feed my sheep." Others apply it to the words, "Go and teach them," in the last chapter of Mark.* For as the law and the observa- tion of the law has been changed, it is not among the Jews but with Peter and his successors. And that the priesthood is transferred from Christ to Peter is proved by the Canon Law and the gloss thereto.* These things are proved by the author- ity of Paul the Apostle, who, in setting forth or declaring that the plenitude of power rests with the Church, says, "Know ye not that ye* shall judge angels? How much more things that pertain to this life ?" " And Nicholas de Lyra, in his commentary on the first chapter of Judges and the first chap- ter of I Samuel, says that God ruled and governed the people of Israel in three ways : First, by judges to King Samuel ; * sec- ondly, by kings from Saul to the Babylonian migration ; thirdly, by pontiffs from the return from the Babylonian captivity to the time of Christ, when John Hircanus, a descendant from the Macabees, first, after the Babylonian rule, placed on his head the royal diadem. In the books of Samuel, Kings and Chron- icles, we read how God ruled the people through kings, and these kings were anointed, as we read in I Samuel xv [i], where Samuel anointed Saul king.* The Archdeacon* says that priests and kings are anointed and that this unction is spiritual. The psalm, moreover, "Give thy judgments unto the king, O God,"* is expounded by Nicholas de Lyra" to mean, "Do Thou, God the Father, give Christ the judicial

^ Decretals i, 2, 3. Full references in notes to text.

'Mark xvi, 15. Further citations of Canon Law omitted here.


 * Citations in text; see notes there.


 * So our text, for "we shall judge.*'

' I Corinthians vi, 2. Further citations from Canon Law omitted.

pen. Lyra on Judges i, writes, ''primo per judices usque ad Saulem regem."
 * So the text unmistakably, probably by a slip of the author's or of a copyist's

^ Citations from Canon Law omitted.


 * Guy de Baysio, Archdeacon at Bologna, died 13 13. See note to text.


 * Psalm Ixxii, i.

^*GaUatus exponitur per Nicholam de Lyra, which I was inclined to interpret to mean the Prologus Gaieatus of Jerome to the Vulgate with Lyra's notes thereon. However, the Prologus Gaieatus of Jerome was not commented on by Lyra, at least not in the edition of 1487, which I have consulted, though Jerome's other prefaces are there. It is impossible to see in Gallatus an allusion to Paul's epistle ad Galatas, as there is nothing pertinent in it or in Lyra's comments oa it The riddle in the text, therefore, remains unsolved.

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