by this author, his readers, and, maybe, by those who accepted his work as a part of their scripture. Yet also, as even Luther admitted about the work of this ‘good, pious man’, ‘there are many good sayings in him’.1 In his re-interpretation of traditional ideas in new situations, in his insistence on the right practice of prayer and of charity, and in his appeal to the nature of man and the nature of God in establishing rules for conduct, the author of the epistle deserves a continued hearing. The