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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