Just a guess but it sounds like someone who has not been baptized.
Jo Ann
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From: Charles Giguere <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Monday, May 22, 2000 6:51 PM
Subject: devil's limb
>Would any learned listmember have any idea who/what is meant by diaboli
>membrum in the following passage from Burchard of Worm's Penitential (c.
>1008-1012):
>
>Si autem sine odii meditatione, te tuaque liberando, diaboli membrum
>interfecisti, secundum indulgentiam dico, propter imaginem Dei, si aliquid
>jejunare volueris, bonum est tibi, et eleemosynas largiter fas (Schmitz,
>Die Bussbucher 2, 415).
>
>He is neither a thief nor a brigand, because a 40 days' penance has already
>been set for killing them.
>
>Bernadette Giguere
>
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