To Anton Lauterbach - Martin Luther

TO ANTON LAUTERBACH

Lauterbach worried in his pastoral office. December 27, 1536.

Grace and peace in Christ! Act thus, my dear Anton; be strong in silence and in hope, and so you will overcome in Christ this sophistical grammarian. Through silence one can do much in self-defense in such cases, till we can set you free and place you elsewhere, as we hope to do. Meanwhile it is much more dignified to put up with the injustice than to act. The right asserts itself at the end. As to the excellent Johannes, you have quite upset me. I hear he is imprisoned in Castle Leuchtenberg, from where that letter was written.

MARTIN LUTHER . (Walch, 21. 1452.)