[484] Cp. vol. iii., p. 264 ff.
[485] Lauterbach, “Tagebuch,” p. 101. Then follows a highly questionable statement concerning a rule of the Wittenberg Augustinian monastery, in which Luther fails to distinguish between “pollutiones voluntariæ” and “involuntariæ,” but which draws from him the exclamation: “All the monasteries and foundations ought to be destroyed, if only on account of these shocking ‘pollutiones’!”
[486] Mathesius, “Aufzeichn.,” p. 73, where some improper remarks may be found on the temptation of St. Paul (according to the notes, on account of St. Thecla) and that of St. Benedict, who, we are told, rolled himself in the thorns to overcome it.
[487] See vol. iii., p. 267, n. 10.
[488] Ibid., p. 122: “Scribis, mea iactari ab iis qui lupanaria colunt.”
[489] “Briefe,” ed. by De Wette, 6, p. 419, undated.
[490] Mathesius, “Tischreden,” p. 373. To a bridegroom in 1536.
[491] “Werke,” Weim. ed., 15, p. 364 f.; Erl. ed., 41, p. 135. Brandenburg, “Luther über die Obrigkeit,” p. 7.
[492] Mathesius, “Tischreden,” p. 437.
[493] Ibid., p. 219.