To the strict and honorable Hans Löser, hereditary marshal of Saxony, my favorable lord and good friend.
Grace and peace in Christ, strict, honorable, dear lord and friend. When I was with you to dispel my headaches and weakness by moving my body, and you showed me great honor and friendship, and also took me with you on your hunt, I also kept my spiritual hunt on the wagon, and caught the 147th Psalm, lauda Jerusalem, with its interpretation, which is the most fun hunt and the noblest game for me. Now that I have brought it home and cut it up, I have given you the same thing.
I would like to report this to you, so that I do not secretly keep such goods, gained from your soil, with an evil conscience, and would not only be found ungrateful, but also harmful. Send E. G. the same, as much as is his, completely and keep it for me completely. For such game can be divided wonderfully among friends, so that each gets it completely and nothing is lost to the other. E. G. would accept such a thing as a favor, for I am willing to serve you. Hereby God bless, together with your dear house vine and grapes. Amen. Saturday after St. Lucy's [16 Decembers 1531.
D. Martinus Luther.
*The reason for the interpretation of this psalm was asked by Tauber himself in his short letter to Dans van Veier. Lie went, as Zen. V, Nil will report!, in" Zauuar I'E in print under the title: "D-r < X I.X'I I Psalm, tlauda Zerusalem. Interpreted by D. Mart. tauber. Wittembcrg. M.D.XXXII." At the end : "Printed at Wittemberg by ssans weis. M.D.XXXII." Zn the Erlanger another single edition is listed under the same title, but without indication of drt and printer. Zn the Lammlungen: in the Wittenberg , I55a>, vol. III. bl. .Xbct; in the Jena 115">u>, vol. X'. Bl. lUI I>: in the Altenburger, vol. V, T. 055; in the tleiv ziger, vol. X'I, L. 557 and in the Erlanger, vol. 41, 2. 151. The attribution is also found in De Wette. Vol. I X'. L. all and, according to taubers Driginal, in tioldc, X unb ntn, L. 174. According to the latter we bade the same improved. The Erlangen edition asked for the tert of the Lchrift after the first single edition, therefore we have improved our text darern after it.