From the Diet of Worms to the Augsburg Confession - James Aitken Wylie

theory of the planets; Mulich on astronomy; and
Cruciger on Terence, for the younger students.
There were besides private schools for the youth of
the town and its neighborhood, which were in
vigorous operation.
Over and above his lectures in the university,
and his sermons in the cathedral, the Reformer
toiled with his pen to spread the Protestant light
over Germany and countries more remote. A boon
beyond all price was his German Bible: in style so
idiomatic and elegant, and in rendering so faithful,
that the Prince of Anhalt said it was as if the
original penmen had lived in Gemnany, and used
the tongue of the Fatherland. Luther was constantly
adding to the obligations his countrymen owed him
for this priceless treasure, by issuing new editions
carefully revised. He wrote, moreover, expositions
on several of the Epistles; commentaries on the
prophets; he was at this moment busy on Daniel; he
had prefixed an explanatory preface to the
Apocalypse; and his commentary on Jeremiah was
soon to follow. Nor must we omit the humblest, but
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