[1022] “Historien,” 1566, p. 151. Then follows the passage referred to on p. 305 concerning Luther and the Elector.
[1023] See Loesche’s Introduction to the edition mentioned in the following note.
[1024] G. Mathesius, “Hochzeitspredigten,” ed. Loesche, Prague, 1897 (“Bibliothek deutscher Schriftsteller aus Böhmen,” Bd. 6). The sermon in question was delivered in a castle in 1553 (pp. 311-335). Loesche says of the same: “It is not necessary to be a rabid teetotaller to feel that Urbanus—from the title of the sermon—treads dangerous ground, and would to-day be considered quite scandalously lax.” Cp. N. P[aulus] in the Köln. Volksztng., 1904, No. 623: on Luther’s admission “I also tipple.”
[1025] Letter of February 20, 1510, “Briefwechsel,” 1, p. 431: “expositus et involutus ... crapulae.” Cp. our vol. i., p. 368. Luther uses the word “crapulatus” in the sense of “ebrius,” “Werke,” Weim. ed., 3, pp. 559 and 596. In the larger Commentary on Galatians, however, a distinction is made between “ebrietas” and “crapula,” 3, pp. 47 and 53; cp. the smaller Commentary (1519), Weim. ed., 2, p. 591: “Commessatio, quae Lc. xxi. 34 [crapula] dicitur; sicut ebrietas nimium bibendo, ita crapula nimium comedendo gravat corda.”
[1026] To Spalatin, May 14, 1521, “Briefwechsel,” 3, p. 154. Cp. our vol. ii., pp. 82, 87, 94.
[1027] Köstlin-Kawerau, 2, p. 497.
[1028] See above, p. 219.
[1029] “Werke,” Erl. ed., 58, p. 337 (“Tischreden”): “A glass with three ridges ... down to the first the Ten Commandments, down to the second the Creed, the third with the [Our Father of the] Catechism in full.”
[1030] S. Keil, “Des seligen Zeugen Gottes Dr. M. Luthers merkwürdige Lebensumstände,” 3, Leipzig, 1764, p. 156 f. He considers that the latter statements in the text were “inventions”; at any rate “there was no harm in the matter itself,” and the “conclusion of the Papists that Luther was a drunkard” were therefore false. Köstlin-Kawerau, 2, p. 510. On the famous but almost legendary “Luther-beakers,” F, Küchenmeister has an article with interesting sketches in the “Ill. Zeitung,” 1879, November 1.
[1031] Letter of May 12, 1532, “Briefwechsel,” 11, p. 359: “Fateor culpam meam et conscius mihi sum, effudisse me verba,” etc.