Page 656 [656]
OCR
ee ee A, 606 LETTERS OF ERASMUS [1519 habeo mihi fauentissimos. Libris nihil fidunt. In solis sycophantiis 30 victoriae spes illis sita est. Eas contemno, recti conscientia fretus. In te redduntur aliquanto mitiores. Meum calamum timent, sibi male conscii: quos ego sane suis pingerem coloribus, vt digni sunt, nisi me Christi tum doctrina tum exemplum alio vocarent. Immanes ferae mansuescunt officiis, isti benefactis efferantur. Habes in Anglia qui de tuis scriptis optime sentiant, et sunt ii maximi. Sunt et hic, quorum est Episcopus Leodiensis, qui tuis fauent. Ego me, quoad licet, integrum seruo, quo magis prosim bonis literis reflorescentibus. Et mihi videtur plus profici ciuili modestia quam impetu. Sic Christus orbem in suam ditionem 40 perduxit. Sic Paulus Iudaicam legem abrogauit, omnia trahens ad allegoriam. Magis expedit clamare in eos qui pontificum authoritate abutuntur quam in ipsos pontifices: idem de regibus faciundum censeo. Scholae non tam aspernandae sunt quam ad studia magis sobria reuocandae. De rebus receptioribus quam vt subito possint 45 eX animis reuelli, disputandum est argumentis densis et efficacibus potius quam asseuerandum. Quorundam virulentas contentiones magis conducit contemnere quam refellere. Vbique cauendum ne quid arroganter aut factiose loquamur faciamusue: sic arbitror gratum esse spiritui Christi. Interea seruandus animus, ne vel ira 50 vel odio vel gloria corrumpatur; nam haec in medio pietatis studio w on solet insidiari. Haec non admoneo vt facias, sed vt quod facis perpetuo facias. Degustaui Commentarios tuos in Psalmos; vehementer arrident, et spero magnam vtilitatem allaturos. Est Antuerpiae Prior eius 29. fauentissimos a: satis aequos F. 30. ego post Eas add. E. gr. Meum calamum a: Eruditorum calamos 7. fortasse ante timent add. E. 33. VOcaret E. 35. da; DUB: Die 36. Episcopus Leodiensis a: eximius quidam E. 37. E: fauet a, quoad a N? : quod FNS. 36. Leodiensis] In writing to Leo x, testifies the indebtedness of the 13 Sept. 1520 (Lond. xiv. 5, LB. 529), learned world to Erasmus among about the unauthorized divulgation of others: ‘Erasmo Roterodamo debemus this letter, Erasmus almost succeeds in cum Graecae tum Latinae linguae creating the impression that he had studium; debemus item, vt pleraque not mentioned the Bp.’s name; with- omittam, illustratam Noui Testamenti out, however, actually saying so. In lectionem, debemus et Hieronymum.’ the letter appended to Martens’ second 54. Prior] James Probst or Proost edition of the Colloquiorum Formulae (Praepositus) of Ypres (1486—30 June (1519 fin.) he contents himself with 1562). At what date he had been remarking that the name is not in the Luther’s pupil (11. 55,6) is not known ; text given in E (BEr?, Collog. i. 65). but he perhaps came to Antwerp in 53. Commentarios] Operationes in 1513 with the band of Saxon AugusPsalmos, a course of lectures delivered tinians who founded there the convent at Wittenberg and printed there (by (LEZ 191. n. 3) of which e. 1518 he J. Grunenberg), 1519, with a dedica- became Prior. In 1521 he returned to tion to Duke Frederick of Saxony, complete his studies under Luther at 27 March 1519 (LE?. 166). A prefatory Wittenberg; where he became Baccaletter from Melanchthon (ME. 36) lareus Biblicus 13 May, and Licentiate
