(A fake letter.)
Luther promises that since they are longing for evangelical sermons, he will preach the first evangelical sermon in Roßla and Ober-Roßla at Christmas.
This letter, according to a copy which the editor received from the pastor Gupner in Nieder-Roßla, is printed in the Altenburger Ausg., Vol. VIII, p. 994; in the Leipziger, Vol. XXII, p.568; in Walch, Vol. XXI, 428; in De Wette, Vol. V, p. 231 and in the Erlanger, Vol. 55, Since the Sacrament was already administered in 1526 in Ober-Roßla in both forms, De Wette I. o. places this letter in this year; but it would be strange if the Sacrament should have been administered correctly and yet preceded by a Protestant sermon. Therefore, Seidemann, in De Wette, Vol. VI, p. 544, note 5, places the letter in the year 1529, but in the "Luther Letters" published soon after, p. 11 and p. 44, he most definitely declares it to be spurious. Dorothea Luther was married to Paul Mackenrodt in Nieder-Rossla; his name was not Balthasar, as the inscription of this letter calls him. See No. 2073. - We leave the letter out.
No. 2608 a
To Nicolaus Medler, pastor in Naumburg.
About a marriage deal.
Handwritten in Aurifaber, Vol. III, p. 265. Printed in Schütze, Vol. III, p. 121 and in De Wette, Vol. V, p. 232.
No. 2609.