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985 | TO JODOCUS JONAS 618 ordines hominum ; aduersus illos magis clamandum qui suis vitiis ordines alioqui praeclaros dehonestant. Vtilius enim fuerit ostendere quantum absint a vera religione qui Benedicti, Francisci aut Augustini institutum profitentes, ventri, gulae, libidini, ambitioni, auariciae viuunt, quam ipsum vitae genus incessere. Inutilius sit o5 ueniat aut quid expediat addi. Ita est humanum ingenium, citius ducitur ciuilitate quam austeritate pertrahitur. Non parum autem ponderis addet orationi tuae si quae doces, potissimum ex arcanis voluminibus haurias, si vita doctrinae responderit, si docendi officium nulla gloriae, nulla quaestus suspicione vitietur. Vim atque èvépyerav addet si quaecunque doces, amaris ex animo ; si ad dicendum non a compotatione aut prophano colloquio, sed ab altissima precatione te contuleris, vt ad inflammandos aliorum animos ipse ardens accedas. Sed nae ego haec nimis multa ad te, a quo magis eram ipse docendus. Bene vale, mi Iona. Antuerpiae. Calend. Iuniis. Anno m.p.xIx. 951986. From ULRICH HUTTEN. Mainz. 5 June (1519). [First printed in an edition of Erasmus’ Ratio verae theologiae (Ep. 661), Mainz, J. Scheffer, 1519 ‘interregni vero mense quinto’, i.e. the first half of June (a). It comes at the very end of the book, on two unnumbered leaves which follow p.156; and it obviously served the printer’s necessity (cf. p. 496). It is not in Froben’s edition of the Ratio, Feb. 1520, but appears in his of March 1520 (8) with a misprint corrected, of 1521, and of June 1522. It refers to so many topics which are not in Ep. 951, that it may be taken to answer more than one letter. Hutten had heard from Erasmus shortly before 21 May (HE. 126). Erasmus’ reply, which he comb LB. 447: 23 July 1519), shows th movements (cf, ll. 39,40), committed it to Pace (cf. Ep. 968. 6 n.). sequence it was delayed in arrival, and Erasmus read it first in print.] Ratio verae theologiae p. (157). Jortin ii. 369. ined with his sketch of More (Lond. x. 30, at Hutten, in uncertainty as to Erasmus’ In conHVTTENVS ERAS. SVO S. Tvas infinitas ad me epistolas non vidi; nam vnam accepi in exercitu cum Tubingam obsideremus, eamque perbreuem: quod videre te oportet cui infinitas illas committas. Verum de eo quem hue cum libro Principi offerendo misisti, nihil est quod sollicitus 986. 1. in exercitu) Hutten bad been and ended 1 May, on the capture of serving in the army of the Swabian League which subdued Duke Ulrich of Wurtemberg, the murderer of his kinsman (cf. Ep. 365 introd.). The campaign began after the Duke's reduction of Reutlingen, 28 Jan. 1519 ; Tubingen, which had been besieged since the middle of April. See HE. 115
