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Just a guess but it sounds like someone who has not been baptized. Jo Ann -----Original Message----- 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 > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%