Note 690 — Chapter XXXVII · LUTHER’S LATER EMBELLISHMENT OF HIS EARLY LIFE
E. M. Lamond translation
Lauterbach, “Tagebuch,” p. 197 (Khummer): The good old man had taught him to commit perplexing matters of conscience “divinæ bonitati.”—Preface to Bugenhagen’s edition of St. Athanasius “De Trinitate”: “Vir sane optimus et absque dubio sub damnato cucullo verus christianus.”—Cp. “Opp. lat. exeg.,” 19, p. 100, on the preceptor’s words (above, vol. i., p. 10): “Fili quid facis, an nescis, quod ipse Dominus iussit nos sperare?”—Cp. Lauterbach, “Tagebuch,” p. 84 (Khummer): Luther’s reminiscence of the wise exhortation of his preceptor on conversations with women (“pauca et brevia loquatur”).—Cp. “Colloq.,” ed. Bindseil, 2, p. 1.