[131] To Spalatin at Worms, January 16, 1521, “Briefwechsel,” 3, p. 73.
[132] In the same month he wrote to Hutten to the same effect: “Nollem vi et cæde pro evangelio certari.” The letter, however, did not reach its destination. Enders, 3, p. 74, n. 8.
[133] Letter to Spalatin in Worms, February 27, 1521, “Briefwechsel,” 3, p. 90: The wrath of the Papists was being stayed by a Divine decree.
[134] See volume i., p. 359. H. Preuss, “Die Vorstellungen vom Antichrist im Mittelalter,” 1909, gives instances of writers who anticipated Luther in seeing Antichrist in the Pope. He looks upon Luther’s controversial writings on the subject of Antichrist as justified. “All Lutheran Christendom at the Reformation period,” according to him, shared “its master’s” views and expectation of the approaching end of the world (p. 196); he thinks it quite in order that the article regarding Antichrist “should have been incorporated in the Lutheran Confession of Faith” (p. 181).
[135] “Werke,” Weim. ed., 7, p. 698 ff.
[136] Ibid., 11, p. 357-373; Erl. ed., 29, p. 1-16.
[137] To Staupitz in Salzburg, February 9, 1521, “Briefwechsel,” 3, p. 85: “Princeps noster, cuius iussu assertiones istas utraque lingua edo.”
[138] Reprinted “Werke,” Weim. ed., 7, p. 284 ff.; Erl. ed., 24², p. 206 ff.
[139] “Widder die Bullen des Endchrists,” “Werke,” Weim. ed., 6, p. 616; Erl. ed., 24², p. 40.
[140] Köstlin-Kawerau, 1, p. 395, where this contradiction is pointed out.