Roth is surprised that, judging by a letter from Luther to Leonhard Beier, he is not yet considered reconciled with Luther, asks for a real reconciliation and reports Ziegler's illness.
Printed in Walch, vol. XXI, 1423 f.
Hail in the Lord. Learned doctor and most beloved father in Christ! Magister Leonhardus Beier, our pastor, has shown me your letter in which you still consider me an exile. My mind is most astonished when I read it, because I thought that I had long since been reconciled with your venerability, both because of my repentance, which became known to you from my letter two years ago, and because of the request of some friends and wives. If things stand as your letters indicate, I ask you through Christ that you lift the ban and relieve it until public business permits you to visit your honor, which I hope will happen shortly. In the meantime, so that I may be of a calm mind, I beg most earnestly that you comfort me by one word or another. For I cannot bear that your honor should be disturbed in the least, let alone that it should be angry with me or think anything evil of me. For I am not what most of your honorable people say I am. God and my conscience are my witnesses. Bernhardus Ziegler is very ill with gout. Farewell with your housewife and dear children in Christ, our Savior, to whom you may pray unceasingly for me, a poor sinner. Given on the 7th of June in the year 1535. Stephanus Rodt.
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