non vi, sed verbo Phrase
Meaning:
Not by force, but by the word [of God]
Comment
From Martin Luther's "Invocavit Sermons" preached in March, 1522, against the Zwickau prophets unrest in Wittenberg;[84] later echoed in the Augsburg Confession as ...sine vi humana, sed Verbo: bishops should act "without human force, but through the Word".[85]
Word-for-word analysis:
A much more detailed analysis with detection of relationships or clauses can be found in our Sentence Analysis! Try it out!
More Information
Embed this entry on your siteVocabulary Groups:
Find more Latin words with our Advanced Search functionality.
"-" is the shortcut for "this form does not exist"
For Students
Most phrases were taken from Wikipedia under the Creative Commons License.
