Anno 1539.*)
I ask all my friends and enemies, my master printers and readers, to let this New Testament be mine. Have they
but they lack the ability to make their own for themselves. I know well what I do, and I also see well what others do. But this
*Walch has taken this writing from the Hallische Theil, p. 466. It is in the Erlanger, Vol. 63, p. 115. Although Walch (Preface to the 14th volume, p. 7) has recognized that the year 1545 given by the Hallische Theil is not the correct one, he has nevertheless not made the correction, just as with the previous writing, where he also indicates the correct time l.c..
Luther's German Testament shall be the last testament. For there is now neither a measure nor an end to mastering and mastering.
And let everyone be warned against other specimens. For I have experienced them so far,
how industriously and falsely others reprint us.
Joh. 12, 36.
Believe in the light while you have it, so that you may be children of the light.