EPISTOLA Letter

and it greatly delights you. You are skilled above all in testing veins, and the metals, especially silver, are fruitful and ample for you. Through your study and authority, you will make them much more fruitful for yourself and for your son, ALEXANDER, just as Philip, King of the Macedonians, once made the gold mines of Philippi more abundant for himself and his son, Alexander the Great. In that city, the divine PAUL was later scourged with Silas and thrown into prison because he had cast out the spirit of Python from a young girl. But, liberated by the glory of God and the fear of the citizens, after long journeys full of dangers, he wrote from Rome that epistle to the Philippians—those ancient miners who had already been converted to CHRIST and were known for their extraordinary generosity—which is noble among sacred texts. Farewell, AUGUSTUS, most excellent prince, and live happily to a ripe old age. Farewell again. At Chemnitz original: "Kempnicij" of the Hermunduri or Misnians, on the 14th day before the Kalends of April, in the year 1555.