# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_November 1862_S336
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336 A Contribution to the Improvement of the Editions of Luther's Works.

I. Main Corrections to Volume 56.

Letter No. 673 is spurious. From line 9 on — "So C. G. himself no doubt feels, etc." — it is an excerpt from letter No. 690. The first eight lines appear to have been compiled from the letter immediately following, No. 674. After this clumsily formed opening there follows at once, abruptly, the harsh, severe admonition of letter No. 690, vol. 56, p. 40ff., which is there so exceptionally well prepared for. To burst in like this, unannounced, toward those who have erred but for whom there is still hope of amendment, is not Luther's way. The note on No. 673, "From the original in Dr. W. V, 437," is certainly false, and the letter is to be struck out.

The address of letter No. 695 can be given more precisely: "To a town council in the Thuringian circle." For in this letter it says: "Since now the two excellent men, Mr. Jobst [i.e., Jost, Justus] and Mr. Friedrich, visitators, who must give account for it, both witnesses," etc.; while in the letter to the council at Saalfeld, however, No. 585, vol. 55, p. 220, we read that these same men, namely Justus Menius and Friedrich Mecum, were "charged with the visitation of the Thuringian lands." Therefore the town to whose council this letter is addressed must lie within the Thuringian circle.

The date of No. 701 is to be corrected, following the original, No. 822*, to: April 5, 1543.

The heading of No. 746 must read: To Christian III, King of Denmark.

In the heading and subscription of No. 778 the year must read 1528.

No. 803 is from the year 1537; cf. No. 802.

In No. 805 the heading is missing: "of May 27, 1538."

The date of No. 815 is: "May 28, 1540"; cf. No. 629.

In No. 816, the heading and closing should read: "4 [i.e., Thursday] after Kiliani" instead of "A after Kiliani" (that is, Thursday after Kiliani), for in the year 1540 the feast of Kilian fell on a Thursday. Cf. No. 814. Its octave, however, Luther would not have designated by reference to the feast of Kilian, but rather: on St. Margaret's day. Cf. No. 632. — This letter was written from Weimar; cf. vol. 59, line 25. On Melanchthon's illness, cf. No. 632.

The heading of No. 832 must read: "To Elector Friedrich of Saxony."

In No. 336 the date is missing from the heading. For this, and for the correction of the address, see vol. 65, p. 238.

For the correction of the heading of No. 838, see vol. 65, p. VI.

The date of No. 340 must read: of Aug. 27, 1529; see the corrections on the last page of vol. 56.