[705] So, for instance, “Corp. ref.,” 1, p. 698 (1525).
[706] Ibid., p. 693.
[707] “Opp.,” 3, col. 826.
[708] “Opp.,” 3, col. 919.
[709] Ibid., col. 1104.
[710] Ioan. Genesius Sepulveda Cordubensis, “De rebus gestis Caroli Quinti,” in his “Opp.,” 1 (Matriti, 1780), p. 468.
[711] To Johann Œcolampadius at Basle, June 20, 1523, “Briefwechsel,” 4, p. 164: “Forte et ipse [Erasmus] in campestribus Moab morietur (Num. xxxvi. 13).... In terram promissionis ducere non potest ... ut qui vel non possit vel non velit de iis [scripturis] recte iudicare.”
[712] In his “Diatribe” against Luther, Erasmus likewise declares that he submits himself in all to the authority of the Church. Cp. Joh. Walter’s edition (“Quellenschriften zur Gesch. des Protestantismus,” Hft., 8, 1910), p. 3. Later he wrote concerning his attitude to Catholic dogma: “De his quæ sunt fidei, liberam habeo conscientiam apud Deum” (“Opp.,” 10, col. 1538).
[713] To Christoph von Stadion, in the letter referred to above, p. 246, n. 1. Even in 1520 and 1521 he says that he had been the first to condemn the Wittenberg preaching because he had foreseen danger and disturbance. There, however, he dwells more on the detriment to learning.
[714] “Si quis deus mihi prædixisset, hoc sæculum exoriturum, quædam aut non scripsissem, aut aliter scripsissem” (“Opp.,” 3, col. 681).