opposes both of them and everybody else, as you will hear in due time. The conflicts among these sects are a sign that what they teach is of Satan, for the Spirit of God is not a God of dissension but of peace.
Greet your lady^ and thank her for the gift she sent; to be sure it has not come, and, perhaps, it will not come, but that makes no difference; her goodwill is enough. Farewell, and pray for me. Martin Luther.
723. LUTHER TO NICHOLAS AMSDORF. Enders, v, 299. WrrrENBERG, January 2, 1526.
Grace and peace in the Lord. I send with this Bruno" seven florins, my dear Amsdorf , for the butter and the dried fish, for I have lost your letter and only remember that I owe you about that much. I wrote Duke George a humble and very sincere letter,* for he answered me in his own fashion with an especially foolish letter,* breathing that peasant- like ferocity which he has inherited with his Bohemian blood.* It was quite worthy of the man. You shall see a copy when I have transcribed it. There was a great rumor here that you had taken to wife Salus Allemann,* my betrothed. I wonder if you are secretly retaliating on me. Farewell in the Lord.
Martin Luther.
724. LUTHER TO NICHOLAS HAUSMANN AT ZWICKAU. Enders, v, 31a (WrrTENBERo), January 20, 1526.
Grace and peace in the Lord. I wrote to Duke George with good hope, but I am deceived.* I have lost my humility and shall not write him another word. Indeed, I am not moved
devirs bondsman," and in 1526 rejected Krautwald's work on tke subject. Kraut* wald also objected to Zwmgli*» view, as Luther says. C.R., xct, 567^. P. W. Loetscher: Schwenckf eld's Participation in the Bucharistic Controversy of the Sixteenth Century , 1906. ^Dorothea Jorgcr.
- Bruno Brauer, pastor at Dobein, who owned m house next I^uther's mt Wittea-
berg, which I«uther bought in 1541. Cnders, xiv, 15; Smith, 369f.
•On December 21, 1525 {snpra, no. 720).
- Dated December 28 {supra, no. 72J)«
- Duke George was a descendant of Podiebrad.
- Ave (Salus- Ave) Allemann of Magdeburg, whom Amsdorf had once recom-
mended IrUther to marry, Kostlin-Kawerau, i, 7a9f. The rumor was false. ^ Cf, supra, no. 723 and notes.
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