Complete Luther Library

To Mrs. Felicitas von Selmenitz.

Volume 21b from the one-column St. Louis Edition English DOCX texts, reformatted for mobile reading on Last Christian Ministries.

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Volume 21b

To Mrs. Felicitas von Selmenitz.

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Written in a Bible.

See St. Louis Edition, Vol. IX, 1798, the interpretation of Is. 7, 9. But there, before this interpretation, the two sayings are missing: "Joh. 5. search the scriptures, for the same testifies of me. Psalm 2: Blessed are all those who trust in him. "After it the inscription: "To the honorable, virtuous women, Felicitas von Selmenitz, my dear godmother. Martinus Luther. D. D. 1534." - Olearius copied this piece from a German Bible preserved in the Marienbibliothek at Halle, paZ. In Olearius in Scrinium antiquarium, pag. 152 and in De Wette-Seidemann, vol. VI, p. 159.

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