Urban II: Call to Crusade (1095) Commentary by Michael Lower, University of Minnesota

Glossary

• Amalekites a nomadic tribe who attacked the Hebrews in the desert during the flight from Egypt
• blessed Peter the apostle Peter
• a generation that set not their heart aright, … as in Psalms 78:9
• Gentiles in this context, persons neither Christian nor Jewish
• God pays with the same shilling, … an allusion to a parable of Jesus (Matthew 20:1–16)
• God, the nations are come … Psalm 79:1–3
• Jebusites Canaanite tribe conquered by King David, who renamed their city Jerusalem
• Jerome the prophet Jeremiah, an exponent of the prophet Daniel
• Karl the Great Charlemagne
• Lord Himself says to the Church through the prophet Isaiah, the source of the following quotation (Isaiah 43:5)
• Ludwig Louis I
• Maccabees the family of Jewish warriors who resisted the authority over their people of the kings of Syria in the second century bce
• Out of Zion shall go forth… prophecy in Isaiah 2:3
• rich man in the gospel as in a parable of Jesus (Luke 16:19–31)
• Sabaoth in this context, the Lord’s armed hosts
• … there must...