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mutandi divitias naturales, ut patet ex primo capitulo. Fpsa igituresteorum possessio QUOrum sunt hujusmodi divitiæ.

Nam si quis dat panem suum, vel laborem proprii corporis pro pecunia, cum ipse eam recipit, ipsa est sua, sicut erat panis vel labor corporis, qui erat in ejus potestate libera, supposito quod non sit servus. Deus enim a principio non dedit solis principibus libertatem ad dominium rerum, sed primis parentibus et toti posteritati, ut habetur in Genesi. Moneta igitur non est solius principis. Si quis autem vellet opponere per hoc, quod Salvator Noster, ostenso sibi denario, interrogavit dicens

Cujus est imago el superscriptio hæc? et cum responsum esset, Cœæsaris, ipse sententiavit dicens : Reddite ergo quæ sunt Cæsaris, Cœæsartr, el quæ Dei sunt, Deo. Acsi diceret : Cæsaris est numisma, ex quo imago Cæsaris in eo est impressa. Sed inspicienti seriem Evangelii patet facile, quod non ideo dicitur Cæsari deberi denarius, quia erat Cæsaris imagine suprascriptus, sed quoniam erat tributum., Nam, ut ait Apostolus: Cuitribulum, tributum, et

passyng bi natural Richessis of the world as it showith of the first chapitre. Therfor that is of their possessioun of whom bien thiese maner Richessis.

For whi whosumever yevith his brede or the labour of his propir body for money, whan he receiveth it, that is his as it was of his labour and of his brede, the whiche was in his fre power under that was nat servitute,nor bond. God forfoth from and at bigynnyng yave not only to princis liberte and domynacioun of thynges but of their first and formor parentis and to all their posterite, that comyth after hem, as it is had in Genesis. Money therforis not only of the prince.

€ Forfoth whosumever willith to be opposed of this bi this that our Saviour suche oon shewed to hym a peny to whom be asked sayeng : Of whom is this tmage and superscripcioun. And whan it was answerd : Of Cesar, he sentenced and saide : Therfor yielde yeethothyngeswhiche bien of Cesar to Cesar, and tho thinges whiche bien of God unto God. € As if he had saide : of the nummysme or newe printe, € Ofwhich Image of Cesar in it is impressed.

Cesar is

cut vectigal vectigal. Christus itaque signavit, per hoc posse cognosci cui debeatur tributum : quia 1lli debebatur, qui pro republica militabat, et qui ratione imperii poterat fabricare monetam. Est igitur pecunia communitatis et singularium personarum, etita dicit Aristoteles VII Politicæ et Tullius finem Rhetoricæ.

circa veteris

CariruLum VII!

Adcujusexpensas fabricanda sit monela.

Sicut ipsa moneta est communitatis, ita facienda est ad Hoc autem fit cConvenientissime, si hujusmodi expensæ accipiantur supra totam monetam, per

expensas communitatis.