Note 1235 — Chapter XVIII · (continued 2)
E. M. Lamond translation
With the expression “unhappy fate” we may compare his lament over the “rixæ religionum, in quas meo quodam fato incidi” (To the Imperial Secretary Obernburger, June 23, 1532, “Corp. ref.,” 2, p. 602). Kawerau remarks (p. 15): “It is indeed sad to find Luther’s greatest friend speaking of his having been involved in the ecclesiastical struggles of his time as a misfortune.”