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 222 I^UTHER'S CORRESPONDENCE AND Let i8o

Basle printer, matriculated there 1509^ M. A. 1515. He then studied law with Zasius at Freiburg, and with Alciati at Avignon May. iS^cv 1524, with an interval of May, 1521-May, 1522, at Basle. He took his doctor's degree at Avignon 1525, after which he spent his life teaching and practising law at Basle. He was one of Erasmus' best friends, and his executor. Allen, op, cit., ii. 237.

. . . Martin edits commentaries on Galatians at Witten- berg. It is said that he will soon publish commentaries on the Psalter. We already have in our native tongue his com- mentary on the Seven Penitential Psalms and his sermon on confession. The speeches of the Leipsic debate are being printed at Leipsic so that Eck, vsrho as an unconquered Thraso, boasts of I know not what triumph, may no longer be able to claim the victory as he does. Indeed, he had the egregious folly to tell Capito he found Martin's lungs full of heresy. How sweet it is to live, especially now, when all sciences and especially theology, on which our salvation de- pends, have left trifling and are brought back to their sister, light. I send you Luther's pamphlet on the power of the Pope. You will enjoy reading it, I know, for it is Christian and cannot be assailed by the Pope's flatterers with reason, but only with scurrility, for this stiff-necked throng does what cannot be done by reason by reviling and papal thunder. . ..

��180. DUKE GEORGE OF SAXONY TO THE UNIVERSITY OF

PARIS. Gess, L loa Dresden, October 4, 1519.

Greeting. The Rector and Professors of our University of Leipsic are sending you the acute debate of John Eck of In- golstadt and Martin Luther of Wittenberg, professors of theology, which was held on some matters of theology and the Bible a few days ago with our permission at the University of Leipsic, and which was taken down from the mouths of the debaters by notaries public. Both sides agreed to refer judgment to the canonists and theologians of your ancient university, excluding the Augustinians and Dominicans, and we also desire this for the sake of the public peace and the pure doctrine. . ..

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