Note 809 — Chapter XVII · (continued 2)
E. M. Lamond translation
To Joachim von Weissbach, August 23, 1527, “Werke,” Erl. ed., 53, p. 406 f. (“Briefwechsel,” 6, p. 80). In 1540 he says: “Ego concessi privatim aliquot coniugibus, qui leprosum vel leprosam haberent, ut alium ducerent.” Mathesius, “Tischreden,” p. 141. In a sermon of 1524 he says coarsely of an impotent wife: “I would not have such a one beside me” (“Werke,” Weim. ed., 15, p. 560). The marriage bond was also dissolved where husband or wife had become impotent “owing to an evil spell”; his convictions forced him to teach this (ibid., p. 562).