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one which eats chaff. They shout at the people of Leipsic not to adhere to new heresies. Thus perhaps they will arouse the people by hatred of us and fear of the Pope to exclude us. It is said that when Tetzel heard that the debate was going to come off, he said: "That's the devil."[1] . . .
Cajetan has again written about me to our elector, such folly or insanity that I am glad his Italian ignorance will be exposed to the laity. . . .
I am sending Carlstadt's Wagon,[2] by which he depicts the folly[3] of theologians, and against which they are raging at Leipsic. Andrew Franck[4] writes me that one man publicly in the pulpit tears his hands, and another inquires of youths in confession whether they laugh at the Wagon or have Luther's works, and that they fine those who confess to these faults. See their darkness, their insanity, and they are theologians!
I expect that you have received the first of my lectures on the Psalms.[5] I send another copy by which you can correct yours. . . .
I am publishing my commentary on Galatians at Leipsic[6] If two of my sermons, a Latin one on Double Justice[7] and a German one on marriage,[8] come into your hands, please help me. They were published without my knowledge, both taken down and printed, to my shame, with great inaccuracy. I also send my exposition of the Lord's prayer.[9] Melanchthon tells you the rest. I believe you have seen Erasmus' new
of some one who is inciting the people against him, perhaps Tetzel (cf. supra, no. 112) or Emser, cf. supra, no. 117.
- ↑ "Das walt der Teufel,' a usual German oath.
- ↑ In 1517, at Augsburg, John von Leonrodt published a woodcut representing two wagons, one carrying people to heaven, the other to hell. Carlstadt republished it in 1519 with an explanation that the second wagon was full of schoolmen.
- ↑ "Moria," perhaps in allusion to Erasmus' famous Enconium Moriae, of which, however, Luther does not speak elsewhere until many years later.
- ↑ Andrew Franck, of Camenz, professor of Leipsic, at this time favorable to the reformers, against whom he turned about 1520. He died 1546.
- ↑ The Operationes in Psalmos, Weimar, vol. V. Melanchthon had sent Lang a copy on April 3. Corpus Reformatorum, i. 76.
- ↑ Weimar, ii. 436. The first edition was by Melchior Lotther of Leipsic.
- ↑ Sermo de duplici justitia, Weimar, 143. First published in February or March, 1519, by Stöckel of Leipsic.
- ↑ Ein Sermon von dem ehelichen Stand, Weimar, ii. 162. Published by Stöckel from a sermon delivered January 16, 1519.
- ↑ Auslegung deutsch des Vaterunsers, Weimar, ii. 74.
