[1350] Ib., p. 84 f.
[1351] To Michael Stiefel, ib., p. 104.
[1352] To Justus Jonas, ib., p. 106.
[1353] To Melanchthon, ib., p. 110: “cum aliud non quæram aut sitiam quam propitium Deum.”
[1354] Ib., p. 111. 2 Cor. vii. 5: “Foris pugnæ, intus timores”; Luther: “pavores.”
[1355] To Jonas, ib., p. 113. He, however, has a joke even here at the expense of Bugenhagen, who was then staying in his house: “Salutat te Pomeranus, hodie cacator purgandus factus.”
[1356] Cp. Ps. cviii. 17: “compunctum corde mortificare.” Luther, quoting from memory, says: “contritum corde ad mortificandum.”
[1357] “Novissimus omnium hominum.” Cp. Ps. liii. 3: “novissimus virorum,” of the Messias; 1 Cor. iv. 9: “novissimos ostendit,” of the Apostles.—“Quem Deus percussit, persequuntur”; cp. Ps. lxviii. 27.
[1358] For the letters quoted, see “Briefwechsel,” under the dates given.
[1359] To the Elector Johann of Saxony, Jan. 16, 1528, “Werke,” Erl. ed., 53, p. 215 (“Briefwechsel,” 6, p. 195).