# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_November 1862_S335
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A Contribution to the Improvement of the Editions of Luther's Works. 335

already worked out, (in the year 1536), for otherwise the Elector of Brandenburg could not have made representations concerning it; the word "undertaken" therefore refers only to the omission of it from print. (Cf. also letter No. 794, vol. 56, p. 200.) But it had already appeared in print before August 15, 1538, as letter No. 575, vol. 55, p. 208f. proves, for "the broadside that went out against the Bishop of Mainz" is precisely this tract. ("Zettel" [broadside/leaflet] very often stands, in Luther, for a longer tract.) From the letters just cited there also result other corrections to the introduction of the tract in volume 32, p. 14 and 15, as far as concerns Luther's harsh writing. It might be reworded something like this:

Luther had already worked out this tract in the year 1536, but held it back at the Elector's request, on condition that the archbishop desist from the persecution of the Gospel in Halle. This condition was not fulfilled, and therefore Luther let the tract go out in print before the middle of the year 1538. It is harshly composed; for this reason Albrecht of Mainz pretended that his ancestral house of Brandenburg was thereby injured. But Luther writes about this to Duke Albrecht of Prussia (vol. 55, p. 209, No. 575): "It is no disgrace to have rogues in one's family, but rather honorable, that one does not praise or defend them." Further (vol. 55, p. 158, No. 546), in a report intended for the eyes "of the Elector of Brandenburg and his cousins," addressed to Chancellor Brück: "I cannot allow it to be said that I have disgraced a whole family, when I had to tell a rogue the truth; and should the House of Brandenburg take it upon itself as though the family were thereby disgraced, when I wrote much evil of the Cardinal — they would more justly take it upon themselves as a disgrace when the Cardinal, in deed, inflicts it upon the family, and punish him the more for it themselves, than I do."

Vol. 55, p. 164, line 4 from top: "M. Paulus" is Magister Paul Heinz of Lübben. Cf. vol. 58, p. 201.

Vol. 55, p. 189, line 3 from top: "to N." is "to Brettin," cf. p. 181.

p. 189, line 13 from top: "E. A. of N." is "Your Honors of the Lichtenberg Cloister," cf. p. 181.

Vol. 55, p. 196, line 9 from top: "Bestrickung" [ensnarement], i.e., imprisonment. Cf. vol. 61, p. 37.

Vol. 55, p. 216, line 16 from bottom: "Abfertigung" [dispatch/settlement], i.e., a portion, an endowment from the monastery estates. Cf. vol. 56, p. 116, line 3 from bottom.

No. 616 perhaps belongs as a postscript to No. 596.

Vol. 55, p. 288, line 1, D. — who was formerly tutor to King Ferdinand.

Vol. 55, p. 307, line 6 from top: "the book," cf. p. 314 and p. 320.

Vol. 55, p. 313, line 15 from top: the Heinz is Duke Heinrich of Braunschweig.