MDDM: Ch 33 - Notes and Questions Part 1

Thomas Eckhardt thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de
Tue Feb 12 11:28:21 CST 2002


Otto wrote:

> Maybe Tetzel's "Ablass-letters," harshly critisized by Luther and other
> protestants?

Compare 162, where Dieter quotes, in the implied author's
characteristically poor German, Martin Luther: "Sobald das Geld in Kasten
klingt, die Seele aus dem Fegefeuer springt." (it should be "im Kasten", of
course)

Thomas




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