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215* order to make better known some of those happenings which were woven so long ago; but not through my will, says the Lord.

Among many arguments Master Aegidius says that the civil law can punish certain things legally by death ami that this does not contradict the law of the gospel. The Explanation says concerning the word "thou shalt not kill" that the judge Master Aegidius (in French, Giles Charlier) spoke from the 13th to the 17th of February 1433, and Bishop Nicholas on January 20th and 21st, 1433. "Feria die 6 ante Valentini surrexit doctor theologiae Aegidius de Picardia, volens ponere positionem contra Episcopi de destructione peccatorum" (. "Petri Zatecensis Liber Diurnus de Gestis Bohemorum in Concilio Basileensi," in, Vienna: Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1857, p.309). Also “Johannis de Ragusio Tractatus quomodo Bohemi reducti sunt ad unitatem ecclesiae," in, p.284f.: "Item die 13 Februarii in congregatione general hora consueta de mane magister Aegidius Carlerii, magister in theologia Parisiensis, incepit suam propositionem ad secondum articulum de peccatis mortalibus publice corrigendis respondendo, praemissis brevi collatione et protestationibus in similibus actibus fieri consuetis. Et ea die complevit primum punctum suae positionis, quam prosecutiis est per tres dies alios, videlicet die Sabbati qui fuit dies 14, et die Lunae qui erat dies 16, et die Martis sequenti qui fuit 17. Et in fine positionis petiit veniam, si in aliquo offendisset sacrum concilium vel quemcumque auditorem sive in fide, sive in quibus-cunque aliis, et ut de offensis aut erratis benigne per sacrum concilium corrigeretur, si aliquo modo impegisset in aliquem, aut aliquem quo_modo offendisset; et in his actus magistri Aegidii fuit finitus.

, written by Abbot Walafried Strabo ( A.D. 1501), whose commentary on the Church Fathers was for a long time honored almost as much as the Bible.