[52] See pp. 373 and 380.
[53] A reference to Emser's De disputatione Lipsicense, and A ventione Luteriana aegocerotis assertio, see above, p. 363.
[54] Luther's greeting to a forthcoming and much heralded work of Eck's, which appeared under the title De primatu Petri.
[55] This statement cannot be substantiated. But see commentaries on Acts 26:10 f.
[56] The memory of the warlike and avaricious pope Julius II. was still fresh in the mind of Luther and his contemporaries.
[57] Alveld so announced himself in the title of his Latin treatise. In order go gain the necessary leisure for its composition he had obtained a dispensation from all the capel services of his monastery. See Weimar Ed., VI, 277.
[58] In a similar vein of satire Shakespeare uses this very phrase in "Merry Wives of Windsor," III, 5.
[59] Gemeinde.
[60] Alveld had stated that the attempt had been made "more than 23 times"; and again, "The assembly has existed more than 1486 under the chair of St. Peter which Christ has established." See Weimar Ed., VI.
[61] Gemeinde.