About the five hundred florins that Mrs. Jörger has earmarked for poor students (see the letter of March 7, 1532), and about another matter.
Printed in Raupach, Evang. Oesterreich, 1st cont., p. 64; in Moseder, Glaubensbekenntniß, p. 88; in De Wette, vol. I V, p. 447 and in the Erlangen edition, vol. 55, p. 11.
Grace and peace. Honorable, virtuous woman! Your letter of the five hundred florins, which you should have received in Linz on Easter next year, has come too late for me. Nevertheless, according to your request, I have asked Martin Seldener in Nuremberg through Mr. Lazarum Spengler and reminded him that he still wanted to demand and receive it with a prescription, as is proper, to send us to Nuremberg. Although I would have liked to have seen it, when I wrote earlier that you would have brought it in yourselves, in all certainty you
1) In the editions: "yours".
[Because I also note from your writing that it pleases you greatly to give such alms by hand to poor students, because to invest on interest: where you remain on the opinion, I do not like it badly.
If a preacher has distressed you on account of your son and a judge, as he told me to Michel 2), you should not be distressed or misled. Let them come into law with each other, the matter does not concern your person; the law will separate them well, and your conscience must not be troubled with it. Hereby commanded to God together with your dear children and all yours, Amen. Date Wittenberg, May 6, 1533.
Your willing
D. Martinus Luther, still half ill.
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