Martin Luther : the hero of the reformation 1483-1546 / by Henry Eyster Jacobs . eGermans their Bible he gave the German languagea permanent literary form, and, upon the basis of acommon language replacing the confusion of dialectsthat had heretofore been current, unified the Germanpeople. The work was rendered relatively easy byhis thorough acquaintance with both the languageand the spirit of Scripture. His translation is notonly a rendering of the original into another tongue;it is an interpretation that touches at once the heartand very life of the most unlettered as well as themost learned
Martin Luther : the hero of the reformation 1483-1546 / by Henry Eyster Jacobs . eGermans their Bible he gave the German languagea permanent literary form, and, upon the basis of acommon language replacing the confusion of dialectsthat had heretofore been current, unified the Germanpeople. The work was rendered relatively easy byhis thorough acquaintance with both the languageand the spirit of Scripture. His translation is notonly a rendering of the original into another tongue;it is an interpretation that touches at once the heartand very life of the most unlettered as well as themost learned. The achievement of those threemonths would alone have given him lasting fame. 208 Martin Luther [1522 Having calculated with considerable accuracy thelength of time required, he announced to his friendshis purpose to return to Wittenberg after desired, with the aid of his associates, to subjecthis translation to a thorough revision, and then toproceed to the Old Testament, for which his limitedacquaintance with the Hebrew rendered their co-operation MELANCHTHONS COAT OF ARMS. BOOK III THE REFORMER I522-1546 111» M^ ! r ^2^4r^ i I ^- ;-^ !^f^ I ./ > -t . It ^ ? ^ ! ^
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