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33 This reply is striking in its simplicity, consistency, and moral logic. In it Chelc̄icky̍ aligns himself with the traditional early Christian position of thorough pacifism. He takes up the absolutist stand of Tertullian who asserted that. Chelčicky was utterly disgusted with the dualistic ethic of Jakoubek and his fellow theologians of the Hussite Reformation, a dualism which anticipated formally and emotionally the principles adopted A.D. 1643 by Cromwell's Ironsides, a dualism which tended to make the temporal power brutal and the spiritual power irresponsible, a dualism which gave its sanction to a special ethic for the and another for the. , XIX.

"For a priest in person to engage in war, fighting according to the flesh as is seen among many, is against Christ, the Gospel, His life and example, and against the teaching of many of His saints." Jakoubek's own words. (F,S̄imek,, Prague: 1932, vol.I, p.572, quoted by Spinka, , p.276.

From the first stanza of the Hussite Anthem "Warriors Who For God Are Fighting." Z. Nejedlý,, (The origins of the Hussite songs), Prague: 1907.