Note 485 — Chapter XXII · (continued 2)

Lauterbach, “Tagebuch,” p. 101. Then follows a highly questionable statement concerning a rule of the Wittenberg Augustinian monastery, in which Luther fails to distinguish between “pollutiones voluntariæ” and “involuntariæ,” but which draws from him the exclamation: “All the monasteries and foundations ought to be destroyed, if only on account of these shocking ‘pollutiones’!”