[181] In the “Tischreden” of Mathesius (p. 80), Luther says: “We shall never be successful against them [the Turks] unless we fall upon them and the priests at the right moment and smite them dead.” The editor remarks: “By this he can only mean the priests in general, not those only of the two small bishoprics.” See vol. ii., p. 324. Cp. vol. ii., p. 325, and N. Paulus, “Luther über die Tötung katholischer Geistlichen” (Histor.-polit. Blätter 147, 1911), p. 92 ff.
[182] Köstlin-Kawerau, 2, p. 402.
[183] Commencement of December, 1535, “Briefwechsel,” 10, p. 275: “Utinam haberent plures reges Angliæ qui illos occiderent.”
[184] See xv., 4. For reply see Köstlin-Kawerau, 2, p. 401.
[185] “Briefwechsel,” 12, p. 78, and Letters ed. by De Wette, 6, p. 223.
[186] Thus the editor of the memorandum, in “Briefwechsel,” 12, p. 80 f., with a reference to the document in question in the Weimar Archives, and to Seckendorf, 3, pp. 200, 252.
[187] Janssen, “Hist. of the German People,” p. 6, 60 f.
[188] “Briefwechsel,” 12, p. 87; “Briefe,” 5, p. 159.
[189] “That given under the Elector Johann,” says Luther, i.e. that of March, 1530 (above, p. 52), in which Luther had declared that armed resistance against the Emperor “can in no way be reconciled with Scripture.”
[190] “Briefe,” 5, p. 188. The passage concludes with a translation of the Latin text appended by a later hand.