Note 985 — Chapter XVII · (continued 4)
E. M. Lamond translation
A passage from a letter of Melanchthon’s to Veit Dietrich, dated March 15, 1537 (“Corp. ref.,” 3, p. 327), deserves consideration: “Secuta est hos agones (his mental struggles or temptations), ut fit, magna debilitas; accessit etiam cruditas, quam vigiliae, vomitus et caetera incommoda multa auxerunt.”