The aim of this article is to analyse both the linguistic and the hermeneutical question – as broadly conceived as possible – as well as the procedure followed in the earliest Baltic versions of Martin Luther’s Small Catechism. I discuss a difficult passage in the translation of the Small Catechism – namely Ench. 89,1–2: arrien|tlāku – in more detail, i.e. a case which many Prutenists have already interpreted in various ways but have failed to explain definitively or convincingly. I seek to present and critically discuss old and new conjectures, including the neglected proposal by Adalbert Bezzenberger.
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