[545] Köstlin-Kawerau, 1, p. 717; cp. p. 792 ff.
[546] “Werke,” Weim. ed., 18, p. 291; Erl. ed., 24², p. 272.
[547] Ibid., p. 316 = p. 288.
[548] Ibid., p. 334 = p. 299.
[549] “Werke,” Weim. ed., 18, p. 293=p. 273.
[550] A. Hausrath, “Luthers Leben,” 2, p. 55.
[551] K. Müller, “Kirche, Gemeinde und Obrigkeit nach Luther,” 1910, p. 140.
[552] “Werke,” Weim. ed., 18, p. 358; Erl. ed., 24², p. 304.
[553] Ibid., p. 358 f.=p. 305. “The violent words of the circular letter ‘Wider die ... Bawren’ were really directed against his bitter opponent Thomas Münzer, the ‘arch-devil of Mühlhausen,’ and the seditious Thuringian peasants.” So runs the introduction of the Weimar edition, with which we may, to some extent, agree, though the pamphlet speaks throughout of the rebellious peasants generally; on the very first page we read, however: “More particularly the arch-devil who reigns at Mühlhausen and who incites to nothing but pillage, murder, and bloodshed.”
[554] Ibid., p. 360; Erl. ed., 24², p. 308.