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Deprived of paper, he found means of scratching his inspira tions on the margins of the devotional books allowed him. We are here only concerned with the details of the inner life of the movement preserved for us by Kessler, as illustrating its character generally. In accordance with this view, they took no thought for their property or liveli hood. In the discourses and literature that resulted, the to us unimportant but at that time essential question of re-baptism occupied the foremost place. The speciality of Hoffmann s preaching would seem to have been from the first the strong emphasis with which he dwelt on the signs of the approaching end of the world. These came singly and in companies from all the districts of central, southern, and eastern Germany. On March loth, he was placed bound upon a cart and carried through the streets of Vienna, being, as one report states, gripped with hot pincers at intervals till he reached the place of execution.
Packaging should be returned in an undamaged condition with the item When does this policy not apply? If the item is: Description Product Info Reviews. June 12th, Headsman. God has restored the true practice of holy matrimony amongst us. Freedom in marriage for the man consists in the possibility for him to have more than one wife … This was true of the biblical fathers until the time of the Apostles, nor has polygamy been forbidden by God.
This decapitation — literal and figurative — dropped leadership onto the head of our man Jan, which got very big indeed over the subsequent 14 months. Citizens , however, meant men: He was actually only 25 years old, a former barkeep. He was also already on a bigamous second marriage. Having already declared himself king and basically the divine intercessor, and gotten the city to go along with it, Jan van Leiden promulgated polygamy on July 23 — directing men to seek out second and third brides as their first and second ones got pregnant.
Barefoot and pregnant, ladies! Maybe it would have been a great plan for explosive population growth, if only that Catholic army under the walls had consented to just hunker down for a generation or two.
Jan took sixteen wives. Many — who can say just how many? Whatever added measure of loyalty, vigilance, or zeal might have been anticipated from such a scene was by this point far too little to preserve the city.