The introduction immediately recalls the guilt of the Jews in killing Christ and their request to be responsible of his blood, saying that us they killed him in the past do they continue to do now: «... Christum dominum denegaverunt coram Pilato et pondus ipsius sanguis super se postulaverunt dicentes: Sanguinis eius super nos et super filios nostros [Matthew 27.25]. Unde Christum occiderunt ipsi corde et lingua, filii vero eorum moderni iudei occidunt corde, ipsum odiendo, idcirco sunt absque deo vero, absque sacerdote etc [thema]» (f. s1v). The interpretation adopted in the sermon is that of the so-called theology of history.
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