So bin Ich auf gut Deutsch ein Hurenwirth, etc. (Ibid.)
[862] Wir möchten fast kaum Eselein ha'n. (Bern Mausol. iv, Wirz, K. Gesch. i, 383.)
[863] Anhorn, Wiedergeburt der Ev. Kirchen in den 3 Bündten. Chur, 1680. Wirz i, 457.
[864] Simml. Samml. vi.—Wirz, K. Gesch. i, 275.
[865] Hinc cum scorto redeuntem in itinere deprehendit, adgreditur, lethiferoque vulnere cædit et tandem moritur. (Zw. Ep. p. 206.)
[866] Hebrews, xiii, 4.
[867] Anna Reinhard, von Gerold Meyer von Knonau, p. 25.
[868] Ein hochheiliges Bündniss. (Ibid.)
[869] Qui veritus sis, te marito non tam feliciter usurum Christum in negotio verbi sui. (Zw. Ep. p. 335.) Who feared that Christ would not use you as a husband so advantageously in the ministry of his Word.
[870] Biographers, most respectable historians, and all the authors who have copied them, place Zuinglius' marriage two years later, viz., in April 1524. Without going at length into the reasons which satisfy me that this is a mistake, I will merely indicate the most decisive proofs. A letter from Zuinglius' friend Myconius, 22nd July, 1522, says, "Vale cum uxore quam felicissime." "All happiness to you and your wife." Another letter from the same friend, written towards the close of this year, has the words, "Vale cum uxore." The contents of the letters prove that they are correctly dated. But what is still stronger is, a letter of Bucer, from Strasburg, at the time when the marriage was made public, 14th April, 1524, (the date of the year is wanting, but it is clearly 1524.) This letter contains several passages which show that Zuinglius had been for some time married. In addition to the one given in the previous note, we quote the following:—"Professum palam te maritum legi. Unum hoc desiderabam in te." I read that you openly professed to be a husband. This was the only thing in you I regretted the want of. "Quæ multum facilius quam connubii tui confessionem. Antichristus posset ferre." These things Antichrist could bear more easily than the confession of your marriage.—"Αγαμον ab eo, quod cum fratribus ... episcopo Constantiensi congressus es, nullus credidi." That you were unmarried I did not believe from your disputes with the friars ... the Bishop of Constance. "Qua ratione id tam diu celares ... non dubitarim, rationibus hue adductum, quæ apud virum evangelicum non queant omnino repudiari" ... etc. On what account you concealed it so long ... I doubt not you were influenced by reasons which ought not to be entirely rejected by a Christian man. (Zw. Ep. p. 335.) In 1524, then, Zuinglius did not marry, but publish his marriage contracted two years before. The learned editors of the letters of Zuinglius ask, "Num forte jam Zuinglius Annam Reinhardam, clandestino in matrimonio habebat?" May not Zuinglius have already been secretly married to Anna Reinhard? p. 210. This seems to me not a matter of doubt, but a well ascertained historical fact.