Note 360 — Chapter XXIX · (continued 3)
E. M. Lamond translation
To the same, Aug. 15, 1530, ib., 8, p. 190: “Christus vivit et regnat. Fiant sane dæmones, si ita volunt, monachi vel nonnæ quoque. Nec forma melior eos decet, quam qua sese mundo hactenus vendiderunt adorandos.” The “monks or nuns” is an allusion to the appearance of the “spectre-monks” at Spires just before the Diet of Augsburg; see vol. ii., p. 389 f.