To Katherine Zell,Matthew Zell’s Wife - Martin Luther

TO KATHERINE ZELL, MATTHEW ZELL’ S WIFE

This letter shows Luther’s relation to the Strassburg people. January 24, 1531.

To the virtuous lady, the wife of Matthew Zell, in Strassburg. I have not yet answered your letter, my good friend, which I received some time ago, thinking it premature to discuss matters, but seeing (God be praised) that the situation is slightly altered, I now write to beg you to do everything, with your husband and others, for the maintenance of peace and unanimity (if God will). For you know that love must go before everything, except God, who is over all, even above love itself. Wherever God and His Word dwell, there love will have the upper hand next to God. Such a high concern is too much for us to manage alone. It must be committed to God in earnest prayer, for it is God’s concern, not ours. We are impotent. Pray, pray, and let Him bear the burden. I commit you to God. Remember me to your dear husband. MARTIN LUTHER . Luther’s Letters to Women.