[331] Ibid.
[332] “Hochverursachte Schutzrede und Antwort wider das geistlose sanftlebende Fleisch zu Wittenberg,” ed. Enders (see above, p. 126, n. 5), p. 29 ff.
[333] “Hochverursachte Schutzrede und Antwort wider das geistlose sanftlebende Fleisch zu Wittenberg,” ed. Enders, p. 31.
[334] Ibid., p. 30.
[335] In an anonymous review, important on account of its original matter, of Burkhardt’s “Briefwechsel Luthers” (“Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung,” 1867, Beilage, No. 18). Unfortunately, the learned expert, who takes Luther’s part, does not mention the source whence the above passage is taken. It appears to occur in some unprinted MS.
[336] To Spalatin, “Briefwechsel,” 4, p. 278: “Quod scortis, aleis, tabernis vacarem.... Mendaciis satis sum assuetus.”
[337] “Summa sententia erat, scortatorem eum esse et compotorem, qualibus viciis fere laborarent Germani.” “Archiv für Reformationsgesch.”, 3, 1905, p. 79.
[338] “Werke,” Weim. ed., 15, p. 774.
[339] To Spalatin, August 15, 1521, “Briefwechsel,” 3, p. 218: “Orbis theatrum sumus,” etc. Cp. 1 Corinthians iv. 9: “Spectaculum facti sumus mundo et angelis et hominibus.”
[340] To Amsdorf, February 12, 1542, “Briefe,” ed. De Wette, 5, p. 434.