Note 708 — Chapter XXXVII · LUTHER’S LATER EMBELLISHMENT OF HIS EARLY LIFE
E. M. Lamond translation
“Videbis,” Staupitz had said, according to him, “quod ad res magnas gerendas te ministro (Deus) utetur. Atque ita accidit,” Luther goes on. “Nam ego magnus (licet enim hoc mihi de me iure prædicare) factus sum doctor.” Such utterances, he continues, have in them something of the “oraculum et divinatio.” Then follows the statement quoted above concerning the other prophecy of his future greatness: “huius dicti sæpissime memini,” and again he declares such words contain “aliquid divinationis et oraculi.”