[295] Lauterbach, “Tagebuch,” p. 18. Biel’s much-esteemed book on the Mass was composed principally of discourses to the clergy delivered in the cathedral at Mayence by his friend and teacher Egeling Becker of Brunswick. In the title Biel speaks of him as “vita pariter et doctrina præfulgidus.” Adolf Franz, “Die Messe im deutschen Mittelalter” (1902), p. 550 ff.
[296] “Tischreden,” “Werke,” Erl. ed., 58, p. 243.
[297] “Briefwechsel,” 1, p. 6: he yearns for theology which examines “the kernel of the nut and the marrow of the bones: quæ nucleum nucis et medullam tritici et medullam ossium scrutatur.”
[298] G. Oergel, “Vom jungen Luther,” Erfurt, 1899, p. 113.
[299] Denifle, 1¹, p. 501 f.
[300] Oergel, p. 118, from the Gotha MS., A 262, fol. 258.
[301] This is at least what he assures the Erfurt Faculty, December 21, 1514. “Briefwechsel,” 1, p. 24.
[302] Letter of the Elector to Staupitz (April 7, 1518), in Kolde, “Anal. Lutherana,” p. 314.
[303] “Luther und Luthertum,” 1², p. 607, n. 1.
[304] When Luther in his answers to Prierias (Weim. ed., 1, p. 661), angered at his opponent’s frequent references to the Angelic Doctor, remarks: “etiam ea quæ fidei sunt, in quæstiones vocat et fidem vertit in ‘utrum,’” the words “quæstiones” and “utrum” lead us to doubt whether he had done more than read the headings of the “Questions.” Cp. Denifle, 1¹, p. 550.