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Pope Urban II: Call to Crusade

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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 be a withdrawal from the faith Guibert’s interpretation of II Thessalonians 2:11–12
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