Works of Martin Luther, with Introductions and Notes (Volume I)

by Martin Luther

FOOTNOTES

[1] Text as given in the Berlin Edition of the Buchwald and others, Vol. I pp. ix ff.

[2] I. e. The example set by preserving and collecting them.

[3] "There is moderation in all things."

[4] "I shall not be better than my fathers." Cf. 1 Kings 19:4

[5] Des Pabats Drecet and Drecketal. Luther makes a pun on decreta and decretalia—the official names for the decrees of the Pope.