COLLECTED WORKS OF ERASMUS VOLUME 67 This page intentionally left blank SPIRITUALIA and PASTORALIA EXOMOLOGESIS ECCLESIASTES 1 edited by Frederick J. McGinness translated by Michael J. Heath and James L.P. Butrica annotated by Michael J. Heath and Frederick J. McGinness contributing editor Alexander Dalzell University of Toronto Press Toronto / Buffalo / London Theresearchandpublicationcostsofthe CollectedWorksofErasmusaresupportedby UniversityofTorontoPress. (cid:0)c UniversityofTorontoPress2015 Toronto/Buffalo/London PrintedintheU.S.A. isbn978-0-8020-9948-8(2vol.set) Printedonacid-freepaper LibraryandArchives CanadaCataloguinginPublication Erasmus,Desiderius,–1536 [Works.English] CollectedworksofErasmus. Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindexes. Contents:v.67–68.SpiritualiaandPastoralia isbn978-0-8020-9948-8(v.67–68) i.Title. pa85001974 199'.492 c74006326x UniversityofTorontoPressacknowledgesthefinancialassistance toitspublishingprogramoftheCanadaCouncilfortheArts andtheOntarioArtsCouncil,anagencyoftheGovernmentofOntario an Ontario government agency un organisme du gouvernement de l’Ontario UniversityofTorontoPressacknowledgesthefinancialsupport oftheGovernmentofCanadathroughtheCanadaBookFund foritspublishingactivities Collected Works of Erasmus The aim of the Collected Works of Erasmus is to make available an accurate, readable English text of Erasmus’ correspondenceand his other principal writings. The edition is planned and directed by an Editorial Board, an Executive Committee, and an Advisory Committee. editorial board William Barker, University of King’s College Alexander Dalzell, University of Toronto James M. Estes, University of Toronto CharlesFantazzi, East Carolina University James K. Farge, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies John N. Grant, University of Toronto Paul F. Grendler, University of Toronto Brad Inwood, University of Toronto James K. McConica, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Chairman John O’Malley, Georgetown University Mechtilde O’Mara, University of Toronto Hilmar M. Pabel, Simon Fraser University Jane E. Phillips, University of Kentucky Erika Rummel, University of Toronto RobertD. Sider, Dickinson College James D. Tracy, University of Minnesota Mark Vessey, University of British Columbia executive committee Alexander Dalzell, University of Toronto James M. Estes, University of Toronto CharlesFantazzi, East Carolina University Lynn Fisher, University of Toronto Press Paul F. Grendler, University of Toronto James K. McConica, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies John O’Malley, Georgetown University Mechtilde O’Mara, University of Toronto Jane E. Phillips, University of Kentucky Suzanne Rancourt, University of Toronto Press, Chair Erika Rummel, University of Toronto RobertD. Sider, Dickinson College James D. Tracy, University of Minnesota John Yates, University of TorontoPress advisory committee Jan Bloemendal, Conseil international asd H.J. de Jonge, Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden AnthonyGrafton, Princeton University Ian W.F. Maclean, OxfordUniversity Clarence H. Miller, Saint Louis University John Tedeschi, University of Wisconsin J. Trapman,Conseil international asd Timothy J. Wengert, The Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia In memoryof James Lawrence Peter Butrica Contents Foreword by Frederick J. McGinness ix The Manner of Confessing / Exomologesis sive modus confitendi translated and annotatedby Michael J. Heath 1 The Evangelical Preacher, bookone Ecclesiastes sive de ratione concionandi translated by James L.P. Butrica annotatedby Frederick J. McGinness 77 Works Frequently Cited 447 Short-Title Forms for Erasmus’ Works 459 This page intentionally left blank Foreword Volumes 67 and 68 of the Collected Works of Erasmus, comprising the in- troductions and annotated translations of Exomologesis sive modus confitendi (1524)andEcclesiastessive derationeconcionandi(1535),havebeenmadepos- siblethroughthegenerousdedicationofanumberofscholarswhoseexem- plaryworkitisfittingtoacknowledgeattheoutset.Ithasbeenmanyyears ago now since Michael Heath completed the introduction, translated, and annotatedErasmus’principaltreatiseonconfession,Exomologesis,andeight yearssinceJamesButricabroughtforththefirstEnglishtranslationofbooks 1–4 of Erasmus’ next-to-last and lengthiest treatise, Ecclesiastes. As the final stages of his first complete draft were being revised in early 2005, while working through various questions and difficulties presented by a number of passages of Erasmus’ text, James Butrica, after months of struggle with a debilitating illness, passed away on 20 July 2006, leaving the English text allbutcompleteinitsfinalform.WithhispassingtheUniversityofToronto Press and Memorial University lost an amiable colleague, translator, and superb classicist. TwoyearsafterJamesButrica’sdeath,JamesMcConicaandRonSchoef- felattheUniversityofTorontoPressenlistedProfessorEmeritusAlexander Dalzell, well known for his work as translator of many volumes of cwe, to collaboratewithmeonJamesButrica’stranslationinordertoemendanum- ber of passages and resolve many remaining questions raised by the Latin textthatheandIhadnotyetsettled.Thefinaltranslationofbook1ofEccle- siastes appearing here in volume 67 and books 2–4 in volume 68 therefore owesavastdebttoAlexanderDalzell,contributingeditor,whoafterJames Butrica’suntimelydeathgraciouslyassumedresponsibilityforthefinaledi- tion of the English text and worked diligently to complete it on schedule. Alexander Dalzell’s polished emendations, with the collaboration of Ann Dalzell,gracefullyadvanceJamesButrica’sworkmanlikerenderingofEras- mus’Latintextinawayhenodoubtwouldhavecommendedasmeticulous,