wisdom is with those that walk simply.' The Lord Jesus keep your Excellency. Amen.
Yours,
Martin Luther.
263. LUTHER TO SPALATIN. Enders, ii. 405. Wittenberg, May 31, 152a
Greeting. I am sending letters, Spalatin, to Hutten, Sick- ingen and our Taubenheim;* please let it be your care to forward them. Let Taubenheim, in particular, have his at once, for I have put off answering him longer than I hoped.
Lonicerus will be done to-morrow. The Leipsic professors, anxious to retain their scholars, boast that Erasmus is com- ing to them. How busy and yet unhappy is hatred! When a year ago they insulted us as vanquished they did not see that this cross was waiting for them. The Lord rules, as we can feel. Ochsenfart is said to be arming against Feld- kirchen by whom he is traduced. I have finished something in German against that ass Alveld ; it will soon be printed.
Advise me whether I should write to the elector in be- half of our state. Everything is very dear, and enough is not brought in ; nor is anything lawfully regulated in this most confused and neglected administration. Something could be done at Wittenberg, if there were any order in the govern- ment. There is need here of the counsel and authority of the elector. Answer and farewell.
Martin Luther, Augustinian.
264. LUTHER TO JEROME DUNGERSHEIM AT LEIPSIC
Enders, ii. 162. (Wittenberg, June, 1520.)
This letter, placed by Enders in September, 15 19, is in answer to one of May, 1520, placed by Enders, ii. 141, in September, 1519. Dungersheim answered it at once with a short letter and a long
iProTcrbs, Hi. 32. "Cum Bimplicibus sermocinatio ejus." Vulfi:ate.
- John Ton Taubenhetm, mentioned in 1490 as a page of Frederic the Wise,
matriculated at Leipsic 1504, B. A. 1505. At latest in 151 1 he entered the official service, becoming treasurer and collector of taxes. In 15 15-6 he collected moneys and paid salaries (including those of the professors) at Wittenberg. In 1528 he was one of the Church visitors. On his warm relations with Luther cf. Smith, op. cit., 369. He died 1541 or 1542. Archiv. fur Reformationsge- schichte, viii. zjff.
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