(Regest.)
Corvinus expresses his joy that Luther's translation of the Bible has been completed and published, and praises it highly. He expresses his gratitude for Luther's honorable preface to his book against Erasmus' tract concerning the sought-after comparison of the religious dispute (St. Louis edition, vol. X VIII, 2006). When he wrote this book, he still held Erasmus' scholarship in high esteem to some extent, but now, after the latter's writing
1) Krafft has resolved "3. p. Ceciliae" by: "the third day after Caeciliae", Nov. 25, but we think it should be taken 3. fer. p. Caeciliae, Tuesday after Caeciliae, Nov. 24. Even counting according to the Latin way, Krafft should have put Nov. 24.
Letters from 1534. no. 2088. 2089. 2090.
Corvinus, who had published Luther's letter to Amsdorf (St. Louis Edition, Vol. XVIII, 1990), saw that he had to despair of him completely. Corvinus sent Luther his interpretation of the Sunday Gospels and urgently asked Luther to write a preface to it. - Luther did this with the preface, which is found in the St. Louis edition, Vol. XIV, 362.
From the Cod. Lremeus. a II in Krafft, Briefe und Documente, p. 72.
No. 2089.