[16] De disputatione Lipsicensi, 1519.
[17] A venatione Luteriana Aegocerotis assertio, 1519.
[18] Some theologians—e. g., Cajetan and Durandus—doubted whether the Sacrament of Order was received by deacons; the Council of Trent decided against them.—Cath. Encyclop., IV, 650.
[19] For Luther's opinion of Aristotle see above, pp. 146 f.
[20] The Franciscans are meant. The allusion may be to the seraphic vision of St. Francis.
[21] See above, pp. 153 ff.
[22] A less lenient view was taken by Boniface Amerbach, writing to his brother Basil at Basle, October 20, 1520: "The good man (Luther) was not a little injured by the libel of a poor impostor, who, by pretending that Martin had recanted, brought back even those who had entered upon the way of truth to their former errors." See Smith, op. cit., I, no. 316.
[23] The present did not last very long; see below, p. 292.
[24] So called because of the withholding of the wine from the laity.
[25] Cf. 1 Tim. 3:16. See Köstlin, Theology of Luther (E. Tr.), I, 403; and below, pp. 258 f.