Luther, vol. 4 of 6

by Hartmann Grisar

[109] Mathesius, “Tischreden,” p. 143.

[110] On the Marcolfus legend (again to be mentioned on the next page), cp. vol. iii., p. 268, n. 4; F. H. von der Hagen, “Narrenbuch,” Halle, 1811, p. 256 ff., and Rockwell, pp. 160 and 163, where other instances are given of Luther’s use of the same figure.

[111] “‘Ipsi tamen occidunt homines [heretics], nos laboramus pro vita et ducimus plures uxores.’ Hæc lætissimo vultu dixit, non sine magno risu.”

[112] Cp. ibid., p. 139.

[113] Ibid., p. 133. He speaks in the same way of the Emperor on p. 160.

[114] Ibid., p. 139. May 21 to June 11, 1540.

[115] For the quotations from Terence, see Rockwell, p. 164. Cp. Kroker, ibid., p. 158.

[116] Mathesius, “Tischreden,” p. 153.

[117] Ibid., p. 138.

[118] To Johann Lang, July 2, 1540, “Briefe,” 4, p. 298: “miraculo Dei manifesto vivit.”