“Werke,” Weim. ed., 2, p. 576: In the “wretched study of right and law” we find everywhere the comfortless fetters of precepts. “O reptilia,” he cries, “quorum non est numerus!”
[792] Cp. Braun, “Concupiscenz,” p. 22.
[793] “Schol. Rom.,” p. 323.
[794] For the second stage, see ch. x. 1-2.
[795] “Vita Lutheri,” p. 6.
[796] “Historien”, Bl., 8´, 9.
[797] Cp. Barge, “Andreas Bodenstein von Karlstadt,” 1, p. 45.
[798] “Chronik,” p. 28: Luther in his lectures “turned the Latin into German.”
[799] Letter of January 27, 1517, “Briefwechsel,” 1, p. 83: “Non sine timore meo me undique iactat et dicit: Christum in te prædico et credere cogor.’.
[800] To Johann Lang, May 18, 1517, “Briefwechsel,” 1, p. 100.
[801] From Veit Dietrich’s MS. Collecta, fol. 137´, in Seidemann, “Luthers Psalmenvorlesungen,” 1, p. vii.: “Augustinum vorabam, non legebam.”
[802] “One of the best points in Denifle’s book is the proof he gives that Luther misunderstood Augustine’s doctrine on sin, to which he looked as his chief support in the Church.” W. Köhler, in “Ein Wort zu Denifles Luther,” p. 27.
[803] Melanchthon to Brenz, end May, 1531, “Briefwechsel” 9, p. 18 f.
[804] “Werke,” Weim. ed., 2, p. 436 ff. Cp. in the Erl. ed., “Commentar. in Ep. ad Galat.,” ed. Irmischer, 1, p. iii. seq.; 3, p. 121 seq.
[805] Köstlin-Kawerau, 1, p. 751, n. to p. 107, 2.
[806] “Werke,” Weim. ed., 2, p. 437.
[807] See Köstlin-Kawerau, 1, p. 275.
[808] In Irmischer’s Erl. edition, printed in three volumes.
[809] Cp. Köstlin-Kawerau, 2, p. 300 f.
[810] Cp. Möhler, “Symbolik,” p. 156, n. 1.
[811] Comment. in Gal., 2, p. 163.
[812] Ibid., p. 161.
[813] Ibid., p. 164.
[814] Cp. Denifle-Weiss, 1, p. 733, where a thorough examination is made of the certainty of salvation assumed in this system.
[815] Ibid., p. 735.
[816] Cp. Möhler, p. 139.
[817] Köstlin-Kawerau, 1, p. 275.
[818] James ii. 22, 24, 26. 2 Peter i. 10. On Luther’s later denial of the inspiration of the Epistle of St. James, see volume iv., xxviii. 2. In this he made no account of the critical proof of the traditional ascription of this Epistle, but considered it merely from his own subjective point of view.
[819] “Werke,” Weim. ed., 1, p. 145 ff.
[820] Letter of 1516, probably September, “Briefwechsel,” 1, p. 55.
[821] As Enders thinks, “Briefwechsel,” 1, p. 58.
[822] See Feustking, “Das Leben des ersten verehelichten evangelischen Predigers B. Bernhardi.” As Enders rightly remarks, he was not really the “first married preacher”; this honour belonging to Jakob Seydler.
[823] “Werke,” Weim. ed., 1, p. 228. “Opp. Lat. var.,” 1, p. 321.
[824] Letter of September 4, 1517, to Johann Lang, “Briefwechsel,” 1, p. 106.
[825] Letter of September 11, 1517, to Christoph Scheurl. Ibid., p. 109.
[826] Letter of November 3, 1517. Ibid., p. 119: “Ad Martinum Luder. Christi theologiam restaurare et in illius lege ambulare.”
[827] Plitt, “Luthers Leben,” Leipzig, 1883, p. 69.
[828] Kolde, “Die deutsche Augustinerkongregation,” p. 315.
[829] Kalkoff, “Forschungen zu Luthers römischem Prozess,” 1905, p. 44 seq. Pastor, “History of the Popes,” English translation, volume vii., p. 361 ff.
[830] Kolde, p. 327.
[831] Bucer to Beatus Rhenanus, May 1, 1518, in the Correspondence of Beatus Rhenanus, ed. Horawitz and Hartfelder, Leipzig, 1866, p. 106 f. Also in “Relatio historica de disputatione Heidelbergensi ad Beatum Rhenanum,” printed in the “Introductio in hist. evang.” by D. Gerdesius, Gröningen, 1744, Supp., p. 176. Cp. “Luthers Werke,” Weim. ed., 1, p. 352. “Opp. Lat. var.,” 1, p. 385.