Intercession for a student.
Printed in the Altenburg edition, vol. VIII, p. 1004; in the Leipzig edition, vol. XXII, p. 581; in Walch, vol. XXI, 517 (incorrect 507); in Schütze, vol. I, p. 408 and in De Wette- Seidemann, vol. VI, p. 423.
JEsus.
No. 3328.
Without year and day.
To Marcus Crodel, school teacher in Torgau.
Luther sends him the Ambrosian Hymn and speaks out about the same.
Printed in litterar. Wochenblatt, II, 310; in Strobel-Ranner, p. 356; from the Schelhorn collection in Memmingen in Schütze, Vol. III, p. 242 and in De Wette-Seidemann, Vol. VI, p. 425.
Grace and peace! I send you, my dear Crodel, 1) the Ambrosian Canticle,
1) Croteli in the other editions; Crodeli is Seidemann's conjecture. In the Album Acad. Viteberg. ed. Foerstemann, pag. 98; Marcus Kradel de Vimaria Magun. dioc. 10. oct. (1520).
translated into German, as you requested. But in this and similar hymns I miss this one thing, namely, that they praise God only because of the works of creation, as morning, noon, and evening, whence the horae canonicae have their name, since the Jews, the Turks, and all the godless do the same, and it befits us Christians, that we continually and fervently remember the recreation of all things, that is, the history of all histories, and the event of all events, which even the angels longed to behold, and now admire for ever, and cannot be satisfied, as Peter thinks, with beholding and admiring. But we sin by looking at them too little, treating them coldly, or forgetting them altogether.
No. 3329.
Without year and day.