Short reply to a letter written by Melanchthon from Eisenach. Luther expects his return, and bad things from Duke Henry of Brunswick and the emperor.
Manuscript at Gotha in Cod. chart. 451, col. 185.4. Printed by Schütze, vol. III, p. 148 and by De Wette, vol. V, p. 314.
mahl), which seems to fit us better. We assume: xx xxxxxxxxxx.
3) This writing is printed in this volume, at the end of the year 1540.
Letters from the year 1540. No. 2729 to 2733.
Grace and peace! The last letter has arrived from Eisenach, so we assume that you either intend to return or that very serious things have happened. For here too, as they say, the wicked Nero 1) of Wolfenbüttel is threatening us with great things, in that the Emperor and the Frenchman are promising each other impossible things. We know that the emperor, the idolater of the Roman idol, has lost all his happiness eternally, after having kissed, not the hand, but also the foot of the last monster, as this day testifies, and a later one will reveal even more. November 18, 1540.
Your Martin Luther.
No. 2730.