Note 694 — Chapter XIV · (continued 2)

To Cardinal Wolsey: “Vita magno omnium consensu probatur,” etc. (“Opp.,” 3, col. 322). Cp. his letter to Campegius, of December 6, 1520. To Leo X he writes, on September 13, 1520 (col. 578): “Bonis igitur illius [Lutheri] favi ... immo gloriæ Chriti in illo favi.” Assurances such as these may well explain Rome’s delay in condemning Luther.