Luther, vol. 2 of 6

by Hartmann Grisar

[1] “Hutteni opp.,” ed. Böcking (Lipsiæ, 1859, seq.), 1, p. 433.

[2] Ibid., 1, p. 320 seq.

[3] “Hutteni opp.,” ed. Böcking (Lipsiæ, 1859, seq.), 1, p. 320 seq.

[4] “Vidimus certe cruentas eius litteras ad Huttenum.” C. Otto, “Joh. Cochläus,” 1874, p. 121, note. Janssen-Pastor, “Gesch. des deutschen Volkes,” 2¹⁸, p. 116.

[5] Schauenberg’s letter of June 11, 1520, in Luther’s “Briefwechsel,” ed. Enders 2, p. 415.

[6] On June 17, 1520, “Briefwechsel,” 2, p. 443.

[7] To Wenceslaus Link, July 20, 1520, Letters, ed. de Wette, 1, p. 470 (“Briefwechsel,” 2, p. 444).

[8] “Werke,” Erl. ed., 20, p. 267; Weim. ed., 6, p. 258. The “insignis turbula” which Luther announces in a letter to Spalatin of February, 1520 (“Briefwechsel,” 2, p. 344), is not the “revolution of the nobility which Hutten planned,” but the ecclesiastical and political storm to be roused by Luther’s own action.

[9] Text in Luther’s “Briefwechsel,” 2, p. 409 (better than in Böcking, 1, p. 355). At the head of the letter are the words, “Vive libertas.” The phrase, “Iubet ad se venire N. te, si tutus istic satis non sis,” must refer to Sickingen. Before this, Hutten says: “Si vi ingruent, vires erunt adversum, non tantum pares, sed, ut spero, superiores etiam.”

[10] “Se iam et litteris et armis in tyrannidem sacerdotalem ruere.” Luther writes thus to Spalatin on September 11, 1520, “Briefwechsel,” 2, p. 478. Cp. ibid., p. 488: “Armis et ingenio rem tentans.”