Martin Luther....(In The English Language) Comments

Martin Luther is a famous modest man, a gifted professor in theology, a talented composer, a devotional priest, a simple serving monk, and the key figure in the Reformation has translated the Holy Bible which can be read now by all people in the world. This poem is a great tribute to him having nice depiction. Thanks for sharing.

OOPs! Bri's typo: [i souldn't use biggest huge, but sometimes i hear myself using redundancy in expressing a very large or small amount of something.] it should read I wouldn't... :) bri

(cont.) in Googling him today i am surprised that, though he was excommunicated by the Pope and condemnation as an outlaw by the Holy Roman Emperor., his death many years later is described as peaceful by his bedside confessor. could the mention of gold have to do with RC church indulgences, which ML opposed? [i souldn't use biggest huge, but sometimes i hear myself using redundancy in expressing a very large or small amount of something.] bri ;)

(cont.) i was 'raised in' a Lutheran church (Missouri Synod, in U.S.) , but recall learning little of ML's life/death. man's will is in God's hands...OR COULD IT BE: God's will is in Man's hands? ? (cont.)

In the weeks leading up to his death, Luther seems to have had a premonition that he would pass away soon. Many of his statements from that time emphasize that death is the great equalizer. In this, Luther’s attitude mirrors that of his contemporaries in the wake of the Black Death (1347 and after) . This notion of death as the great equalizer had also found popular expression in the late medieval poem “The Dance of Death, ”... (cont.)

A fantastic tribute with great detail.