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70* Let him who is humble come and behold the vainglorious haughtiness! For a congregation of fornicators has entered into a covenant with the Holy Spirit and the Holy Spirit reigns over them who are an assembly of harlots, assassins of righteous men, and transgressors of all commandments of God. But he, this shameful nude, refused to put on anything less than the raiment of the Holy Spirit, and he rules over the good things of Christ, not stupidly but cleverly, in the disguise of the Holy Spirit, and is more generous and wise than the apostles. The devil who dwells among us under a shadow as it were, has a rich accoutrement indeed, And who shall unveil his face which he hides by the shadow of the Holy Spirit?

The Auditor mentioned here is Juan Palomar, a Spanish doctor of law and archdeacon of Barcelona. In the documents of the Basel Council he is identified as "Johannes de Palomar, decretorum doctor, Papae capellanus, sacri palatii apostolici causarum auditor, archydyaconus Barcinonensis." (., ed. Francis Palacky̍ and Ernst Birk, Vienna: Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1857). During the early days of the council Palomar defended the right of the clergy to have temporal possessions and attacked the Czech position in a long "filibustering" speech lasting from February 23rd till February 28th, 1433, with additional comments made public on April 7th and 8th of the same year. For details of the proceedings see the highly interesting diary of a Hussite eye-witness, Peter of Zatec, "Petri Zatecensis Orphanorum sectae presbyteri liber diurnus de gestis Bohemorum in Concilio Basileensi," included in the above, vol.I, pp.317–348. In Jacques Lenfant's unsympathetic account,, vol.I, p.372 (Utrecht:LeFebure, 1731), we read that Pope Eugenius IV appointed Cardinal Julian to preside over the Council in Basel. But because of his other preoccupations during the period of the initial sessions, Julian sent to Basel two men as his official representatives, Juan Palomar and John of Ragusa.

The rediscovery of the cup, in 1414, was the chief contribution of Jakoubek of Str̄i̍bro, based on accurate historical research. With it, Jakoubek can be legitimately called the second founder of the Hussite Reformation. This was a revolutionary discovery by which Jakoubek renewed, of his own initiative, the form of serving bread and wine at the sacrament of communion. And this more than anything else led to the separation of the Hussite movement from the Church of Rome and to the establishment of the independent Hussite Church, of which Jakoubek became the chief theologian. F.M. Bartos̄,, ("Master Jakoubek of Str̄i̍bro, Associate of Hus and Restorer of the Chalice"), Ta̍bor: Jihočesky̍ sborni̍k historicky̍, vol.XII, 1939. Also his, ("The Spiritual Father of Taboritism"), Ta̍bor: JSH, vol.II, 1929, pp.75–84. "The practice of the communion in both kinds is the chief contribution of the Bohemian Reformation to the Protestant world." Bartos̄, ," ("The Seeking of the Essence of Christianity in the Czech Reformation"), Prague: Kalich, 1939, p.2.

Exodus 26:14.

Matt. 28:20.

Savonarola's dictum, "In the original Church the chalices were of wood, the prelates of gold; in these days the Church hath chalices of gold and prelates of wood."

I-Cor.1:20–27 and Matt.10:9–10.

Luke 10:42.

Meaning: if possessions were as much worth as salvation, what a treasury of salvation the Church would have!

In the ( p.6363* [sic], n.1) the following allocutions are found:"Sacrosancta generalis synodus basiliensis, in spiritu sancto legitime congregata, universalem ecclesiam repraesentans; Spiritus Sanctus paracletus, hujus sacri concilii gubernator et director qui cum Patre et Filio regnat in secula"

2-Thes. 2:4.