A letter, in which Luther ironically punishes the quarreling of the council with the pastor there.
Manuscript at Gotha in Cod. chart. 45. f. Printed in the Leipzig Supplement, p. 79, no. 140; in Walch, vol. XXI, 387; in De Wette, vol. V, p. 24 and in the Erlangen edition, vol. 55, p. 146.
Grace and peace. Honorable and prudent, dear gentlemen and good friends! I was pleased to read that you have become so devout in Zwickau; I also want to write to the pastor as soon as I can, and ask that he also keep himself right. But that I have so easily believed a part of you, or would still believe, you should not blame me, if God wills it. For I am well burned by the star of Zwickau, and know its splendor and influence a little. Therefore, suspicion can easily show you 2) with the great appearance of the previous stories; although all preachers, ever and anon, the people and congregation, and also the greater part of the council, almost vow to me that I consider the whole sky at Zwickau full of good stars, without some of the great planets at Zwickau being strange, causing strange constellations, and misleading the sky with the other stars, which example is shown by the following
2) Instead of "indicate", De Wette has put his conjecture "approach" into the text; according to him, the Erlangen edition.
Letters from the year 1536. No. 2290 to 2293.
No. 2291.