#1727-To Johann Apel in Koenigsberg

To the highly renown man, Herr Johann Apel, Chancellor of Prussia, Doctor of Law, his very good friend and superior.
Grace and peace in the LOrd! I wish you happiness, worthy man, for an untroubled beginning in Prussia and more so that it would be granted to you a good livelihood and to live honorable. Peter Weller written to me about the above while I was yet I Coburg. The LOrd strengthen you at last and make you to be a Manasseh, that is, one who forgets all previous temptations and evil, Amen. There is nothing I can write to you about the Diet and the state of our situation; the eye-witness and ear-witness,Peter Weller, is present with you. (Weller delivered this letter). The Bishops and the monks are laboring precipitously toward their destruction in that the Duke, the well-known farmer (Duke Georg of ducal Saxony) who is entirely possessed by the devil is their Counselor. Ours are valiantly ready to suffer the extremist for the Word. God support and protect them, Amen. I am to an extent healthy in body except that this summer I suffered a new sort of roaring in the head and also I am not yet free of it. Thus Satan strikes with the fist and is intent on making a corpse out of my body. Christ Jesus support me. Greet Herr Poliander (Graumann) and all of ours. The LOrd Jesus be with you. Wittenberg the 7th of November 1530. Your Martin Luther.
NOTES: It is said that in a later day the residents of Koenigs berg would set their clocks by the afternoon walks of Immanuel Kant.
Just came to me why ML is continually calling Duke Georg "the farmer". In Greek Georg means earth worker.