Complete Luther Library

To Ms. Dorothea Jörger.

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Volume 21b

To Ms. Dorothea Jörger.

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Luther recommends a certain Andreas; of the use of the scholarship donated by her; of Luther's condition and of the reemployment of Stiefel.

A piece of the original is in Gotha, Cod. 379.1, it extends to: "stehet nu bes[ser]". Printed in Moseders Glaubensbekenntniß, p. 87; in Raupach, Evang. Oesterreich, 1st continuation, p. 67; in De Wette, vol. I V, p. 597 and in the Erlangen edition, vol. 55, p. 92.

Grace and peace in Christ. Virtuous, honorable, dear women! He has asked me not to come to you without my writing, because the air in all these places is making his body sick.

1) Instead of mittamus we have assumed mittemus.

2) The income of the benefice given to Wolfgang amounted, as we see from a letter of Luther of Oct. 23, 1541 to Aug. Himmel, to 19 old florins, 9Gr., 1 Pf.

No. 2126.