[56] Köstlin-Kawerau, 1, p. 77.
[57] Ericeus, “Sylvula sententiarum,” p. 142. Cp. J. K. Seidemann, “Luthers älteste Vorlesungen über die Psalmen,” 1, Dresden, 1876, p. xvii. “Ego adolescens audivi doctos viros et bonos grammaticos,” etc.
[58] In the tract “Rationis Latomianæ confutatio,” “Opp. Lat. var.,” 5, p. 400; Weim. ed., 8, p. 45.
[59] The above description of Luther’s life in the monastery, starting from the strange circumstances of his entrance, has intentionally been left incomplete. Below, in volume vi., chapter xxxvii., the whole development of his character and disposition as it appears more clearly in the course of his history, and at the same time his own later views and his manner of depicting his life in religion, are reverted to in detail.
[60] “Erzeigung der Falschheit,” p. 6.
[61] “Dadelung des Bekenntnus,” p. 15´, 16.
[62] “A venatione Luteriana Ægocerotis assertio,” s.l.e.a.E, 5´.
[63] “Werke,” Erl. ed., 30, p. 372: “Although I have been a great, grievous, shameful sinner and have wasted and spent my youth damnably,” yet his greatest sins were that he had been a monk and had said Mass.
[64] “Commentaria,” etc., p. 1. “Acer ingenio et ad contradicendum audax et vehemens.”
[65] Kolde, “Die deutsche Augustinerkongregation,” p. 96 f.