[361] “Werke,” Weim. ed., 11, p. 400; Erl. ed., 29, p. 41, in “Ursach und Anttwortt das Jungkfrawen Kloster gottlich verlassen mugen.”
[362] Ibid., 10, 1, p. 692; Erl. ed., 10², p. 450, in the Tract against the state of chastity, embodied in the “Postils.”
[363] “Luther und seine Gegner, Vortrag,” 1903, p. 14. Here it is true the cynicism is regarded as an “expression of his moral annoyance” with the supporters of celibacy, who themselves led immoral lives.
[364] On March 8, 1523, “Briefwechsel,” 4, p. 96.
[365] “Briefwechsel,” 5, p. 123, on Jonas and his writing materials (“schedas natales, hoc est de natibus purgatis”).
[366] “Werke,” Weim. ed., 18, p. 93; Erl. ed., 29, p. 169. According to these foes of his, it is, he says, “die rechten evangelischen Prediger, die der Braut von Orlamünde das Hembd und dem Bräutigam zu Naschhausen die Hosen ausziehen.” Ibid., p. 84 = 160: “Wie aber, wenn Braut und Bräutigam so züchtig wären, und behielten Hembd und Rock an? Es solle freilich nicht fast hindern, wenn sie sonst Lust zusammen hätten.” Cp. Köstlin-Kawerau, 1, p. 681.
[367] The explanation is Köstlin’s, and is retained in the most recent edition by Kawerau, 1, p. 736.
[368] See the whole Greek letter below, p. 176. The passage αἱ μοναχαὶ πάσῃ ἐμηχαν πιβουλευομέναι προσέσπασαν αὐτόν, according to our opinion, conveys the sense attributed to it above. Cp. Köstlin-Kawerau, 1, p. 736.
[369] Articuli sive libelli triginta, etc., art. 17, p. 81 seq.
[370] Articuli sive libelli triginta, etc., art. 17, p. 83.