[1170] Lauterbach, “Tagebuch,” p. 111.
[1171] See Paulus, ib., pp. 25 ff., 49.
[1172] Lauterbach, “Tagebuch,” p. 111.
[1173] Ib., p. 117, Aug. 20, 1538.
[1174] Ib., p. 121, Aug. 25, 1538. “Colloq.,” ed. Bindseil, 3, p. 12.
[1175] “Werke,” Erl. ed., 60, p. 79.
[1176] “Werke,” Weim. ed., 16, p. 551 (“occidantur,” etc.).
[1177] See Paulus, ib., p. 43 f., where he quotes Luther’s “Von den Conciliis und Kirchen” (1539), in support of the duty of burning witches on account of their compact with the devil, quite apart from the harm they may cause—“Werke,” Erl. ed., 25², p. 441 f.: The witches or “devil’s whores, who are burnt at the stake whenever they are caught, as is right, not for stealing milk but because of the blasphemy by which they strengthen the cause of the devil, his sacraments and Churches.”
[1178] Cp. the Eisleben edition (1569), pp. 280, 280´: “They should be hurried to the stake. The lawyers require too many witnesses and proofs, they despise these open, etc.” The same occurs in the Frankfurt edition (1568), p. 218´.
[1179] “Pythonissa,” Frankfurt, 1660, pp. 471, 472, from Luther’s Works, Erl. ed., 58, p. 129 (above, p. 287).