(Regest.)
Answer to the Landgrave's letter of April 5 (No. 2639). Luther asks him to keep the matter secret for the sake of the Gospel and to mend his ways.
Printed in M. Lenz, Briefwechsel, p. 362. The above regest in Kolde's Analecta, p. 348.
1) This Luther did at the beginning of June 1540 by his writing: "Bericht von M. Joh. Eislebens falscher Lehre und schändlicher That; dazu Antwort auf seine ungegründeter Klage" 2c., St. Louis Edition, Vol. XX, 1648. See also the introduction there p. 56.
2) The solar eclipse was on April 7 in the morning at 5 o'clock.
No. 2643.