Luther expresses his view on 1 Petr. 4, 6. and On Nonnus.
In Rebenstock's CoIIoquia Lutheri, tom. II, fol. 2196, with the caption: Consilium M. L. super locurn 1. Petri 4. cap.; in Seidemann's "Lutherbriefe", p. 79, with the caption: "An einen ungenannten Pfarrer" and in Bindseil's Colloquia, tom. II, p. 278, as attributed to: Professori bonarum literarum in schola Chemnitia loanni Schulteto, quem supremum vocant. Seidemann, "Lauterbach", p. XIV, says about it: "^.91, Vol. II, col. 135 has only: ad I. 8. scriptum. He is the locksmith in Pirna, Joh. Dav. Schreber (cf. St. Louiser Ausg., Vol. IX, 1813, note 1). - The text in Seidemann is at the beginning very corrupted by punctuation that is contrary to meaning, therefore we have translated according to Bindseil, but preferred some of Seidemann's readings.
What will the matter finally come to? There will never be an end to the questions. So it happens that there is no worry that we will become godly. For this is how we are treated, that we are regarded for being able to argue astutely about difficult and complicated things. Therefore, I urge you to stop struggling with the passage in the Epistle of Peter, which perhaps cannot be interpreted without special revelation. I freely confess that I do not obtain it, nor do I trouble myself much with the anxiety of fully investigating such passages. God would have me think through what (as Paul says) is for edification. Fer
2) With Kolde "the".
3) We have assigned a similar letter from the King of Denmark to Luther's widow, dated 8 Feb. 1552, to the gleanings (at the end), since we wanted to conclude Luther's collection of letters with Luther's year of death, 1546.
ner with the Normus it stands thus: He was a poet. He wrote a paraphrase of the Gospel of John in a Greek poem. He seems to have been an eloquent and in a godly way learned man, whose testimony I sometimes use in the interpretation of John, and the passage of which you wrote, he referred to the last judgment of Christ. Give me credit for the brevity of my letter, and make my sincere recollection the best. Farewell.
To the professor of fine sciences at the school in Chemnitz, Johann Schultetus, who is called the supreme.
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