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34 Jakoubek became insensed by Chelc̄icky̍'s "obstinacy" and in A.D. 1420, when Emperor Sigismund declared war which Pope Martin V seconded by proclaiming a crusade against "the Wyclefites, Hussites, and other heretics, their furtherers, harbourers, and defenders," the masters of the University fully endorsed Jakoubek's thomistic sanction of the "just war." It was on this occasion that Peter parted with the Calixtine leaders.

On both sides, papal and Hus site, war became not only outwardly but also ideologically a crusade. Hussitism was transformed into a reincarnation, as it were, of the primitive Hebrew concept of the Warrior Nation fighting the battles of its War God Yahweh. It was quick, violent and single-minded as are all true mass revolutions under which the old order crumbles to dust. And it was a crusade for Yahweh. For "a revolution always has this in common with a crusade that it is fought not under but against the authority of the prince. A war fought primarily for the defense of an ideal tends to be a crusade, especially if that ideal is religious". Spinka,, p. 275.

Jakoubek's directives to the Hussite soldiers represent an accomodation of Christian ideals to national exigencies very much in the way in which, at a later time,    of the Ironsides epitomizes the "just war" when over against "love your enemies" are set the verses "Dost thou help the wicked and love them that hate Continued on next page