Menius testifies to his joy at the completion of Luther's Summaries on the Psalter.
From the original in the Wolfische Sammlung of the Hamburg Stadtbibliothek, I, fol. 154, printed in Kolde's
S. 183.
To his venerable and exceedingly dear father in Christ, D. Martin Luther, preacher of the church at Wittenberg 2c.
Grace and peace in Christ! I give you the greatest and eternal thanks, my dearest Father in Christ, that you have finally completed the Summaries of the Psalter for us, 2) and I pray to God, our Father, without ceasing, that He may also make us use what He has deigned to give us through you, His servant, according to His immeasurable goodness, that is, that He may not, through the so great quantity of spiritual and truly heavenly goods, make this so precious treasure seem small to us. O we blessed and in truth children of God, to whom it has been granted on earth in the flesh, in sin, when we are still wandering in darkness and in the shadow of death, not only to behold the divine and heavenly love and the light of the highest majesty, that is, the highest wisdom and the truth of the highest God, but also to carry it in our own hearts not differently than in a lamp.
2) This is the approximate date for this letter, since the Summaries on the Psalter went out on New Year's Day 1533. See St. L. Ausg., Vol. IV, 124.
Letters from the year 1533. no. 1953 to 1956.
No. 1954.