inepti

Updated: May 7, 2025

He alluded to the subject in his Sermon on the Ban. Köstlin, Theology of Luther, translated by Hay, I, 363. Martin Luther, I, 299. Alved's second book, the Confutatio Inepti, was dedicated to the Council and honorable citizens of the city of Leipzig on the 23d of April, and appeared in print in the middle of May.

Martin Luther - Works of Martin Luther: With Introductions and Notes (Volume I)

Becichemus, rector of the Academy of Pavia in the sixteenth century, in his introduction to the work of Ferreri, wrote of the hymns: "sunt omnes fere mendosi, inepti, barbarie refecti, nulla pedum ratione nullo syllabarum mensu compositi.... Ut ad risum eruditos concinent, et ad contemptum ecclesiastici ritus vel literatos sacerdotes inducant.... Literatos dixi: nam ceteri qui sunt sacri patrimonii helluones, sine scientia, sine sapientia, satis habent, ut dracones stare juxta arcam Domini."

Edward J. Quigley - The Divine Office