See St. Louis edition, vol. XIX, 1286. - There we have given the time determination: "beginning 1534" and have understood, as the note there states, that.
1) "weiland" - formerly, formerly.
2) This that Seidemann, "Erläuterungen," p. 152, who would like to place the letter in the year 1544; but later, in De Wette, vol. VI, p. 524, note 2, he says: "Therefore, however, the letter is probably not to be placed in the year 1544."
this writing was written after February 1534, in the first half of the year. At least the letter to Justus Jonas (No. 2054) does not prove anything for a later writing, since it is probably written for the translation already completed by Jonas, to be placed before this work.
No. 2058.