CHAPTER XXIII. FRESH CONTROVERSIES WITH ERASMUS

(1534, 1536) AND DUKE GEORGE († 1539) _pages_ 179-193

1. LUTHER AND ERASMUS AGAIN.

Their relations since 1525; the “_Hyperaspistes_”; Luther’s attack in 1534 and Erasmus’s “_Purgatio_”; Luther on the end of Erasmus _pages_ 179-186

2. LUTHER ON GEORGE OF SAXONY AND GEORGE ON LUTHER.

Luther exhorts the Duke to turn Protestant; the Duke’s answer; how George had to suffer at Luther’s hands; his true character utterly at variance with Luther’s picture; the Duke repays Luther in his own coin _pages_ 187-193