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the reasoning of the Mohammedans that God has no wife, therefore he
can have no son. He approves of the objection of the Turks: “Nec
mirum, si Turci nos asinarios vocant, postquam nos Deum vocare
asinum non erubescimus.” 12a.
ft1050 The last expression I could not find in the work De Trinitatis
Erroribus, but it occurs in his letters to Calvin, and in a letter to
Poupin, where he says: “Pro uno Deo habetis tricipitem cerberum.”
Calvin’s Opera, VIII. 750. It was made the chief ground of the charge
of blasphemy at the trial in Geneva. “Un Dieu party en trois ... est uti
diable àtrois testes comme le Cerberus que les Poetesanciens ont
appelléle chien d’enfer, un monstre.” Ibid. 728, Art. IX. Tollin, in his
article Der Verfasser de Trinitatis Erroribus (“Jahrbücher für protest.
Theologie,” 1891, p. 414), derives these offensive phrases from the
papal controversialist Cochlaeus, who in his Lutherus septiceps, 1529,
says: “Quid ad haec Janus Bifrons? Quid Geryon Triceps? Quid
Cerberus trifaux? fabulae sunt poetarum et jocosa figmenta.”
Cochlaeus compared these fables with the seven-capped Luther, who
surpassed them all in monstrosity.
ft1051 He adds in Greek that it is not profitable to inquire curiously into the
ideas and differences of the divine persons. Opera, ed. Bretschneider,
II. 630, and his letter to Brenz, July, 1533, II. 660. Also Tollin, Ph.
Melanchthon und M. Servet, Berlin, 1876.
ft1052 “Quae nuper contra receptam de Trinitate sententiam, septem libris,
scripsi, omnia nunc, candide lector, retracto. Non quia falsa sint, sed
quia imperfecta, et tamquam a parvulo parvulis scripta .... Quod
autem ita barbarus, confusus et incorrectus, prior liber prodierit,
imperitiae meae et typographi incuriae adscribendus est.”
ft1053 “Perdat Dominus omnes ecclesiae tyrannos. Amen.”
ft1054 The following is the full title of the second edition which I found
(together with a copy of the first) in the library of the American
Geographical Society at New York:—
“Claudii | PTOLEMAE | ALEXAN | drini | Geographicoe Enarrationis, |
Libri Octo. | Ex Bilibaldi Pircke | ymheri tralatione, sed ad Graeca et
prisca exemplaria à Michaele Villanouano | secundò recogniti, et locis
innumeris denuò castigati. Adiecta insuper ab eodem scho | lia, quibus
et difficilis ille Primus Liber nunc primum explicatur, et exoleta Urbium
| nomina ad nostri seculi morem exponuntur. Quinquaginta illae quoque