[544] “Ein unüberwindlicher gründlicher Bericht was die Rechtfertigung in Paulo sei,” Leipzig, 1533. Döllinger, ibid., p. 40.
[545] “Werke,” Erl. ed., 54, p. 253 (“Briefwechsel,” 9, p. 103).
[546] Dan. xi., 37. Cp. “Werke,” Erl. ed., 64, p. 155.
[547] “Annotationen zum A.T.,” 2, fol. 198´. Döllinger, ibid., p. 106.
[548] The passages referred to are, according to the text of the Vulgate: 1 Cor. vii. 32: “Qui sine uxore est, sollicitus est quæ Domini sunt,” etc. Ibid., 38: “Qui non iungit (virginem suam) melius facit.” Ibid., 40: “Beatior erit, si sic permanserit,” etc. Mat. xix. 12: “Sunt eunuchi, qui se ipsos castraverunt propter regnum Dei. Qui potest capere capiat.” Apoc. xiv. 3 f., of those who sing “the new song before the throne” of the Lamb: “Hi sunt, qui cum mulieribus non sunt coinquinati, virgines enim sunt. Hi sequuntur agnum quocunque ierit. Hi empti sunt ex hominibus primitiæ Deo et Agno.” 1 Tim. v. 12, of those widows dedicated to God who marry: “Habentes damnationem, qui primam fidem irritam fecerunt.”—Against Jovinian St. Jerome wrote, in 392: “Adv. Iovinianum” (“P.L.,” 23, col. 211 seq.), where, in the first part, he defends virginity, which the former had attacked, and demonstrates its superiority and its merit.
[549] “Annotationen zum A.T.,” 2, 1536, fol. 198´, on Daniel xi., 37. Döllinger, ibid., p. 105 f.
[550] “Homiliæ XXII,” Vitebergæ, 1532. Denifle, “Luther und Luthertum,” 1², p. 278.
[551] “De corruptis moribus utriusque partis,” Bl. F. III. In the title page the author’s name is given as Czecanovius; this is identical with Staphylus, as N. Paulus has shown in the “Katholik,” 1895, 1, p. 574 f.
[552] F. Staphylus, “Nachdruck zu Verfechtung des Buches vom rechten Verstandt des göttlichen Worts,” Ingolstadt, 1562, fol. 202´.
[553] Cp. the quotations in Denifle (1², Preface, p. 15 ff.), commencing with one from Billicanus: “By the eternal God, what fornication and adultery are we not forced to witness”; also those on pp. 282 ff., 805 f.