Ocupation: Monk
Life: November 10, 1483 - February 18, 1546
Birthday: November 10
Death: February 18
Why do you rant and brag with such a spate of words, as if you wanted to overwhelm me with a sort of tempest and deluge of oratory-which nevertheless falls with the greater force on your own head, while my ark rides aloft in safety?
source: Desiderius Erasmus, Martin Luther, Ernest Gordon Rupp, Philip Saville Watson (1969). “Luther and Erasmus: free will and salvation”
topic: Fall, Safety, Ark, Deluge