loci impinge on his teaching regarding God’s total responsibility and total human responsibility. The 1533 fragment—a working draft for the recasting of the Loci—does contain a brief topic “on predestination,” which admonishes readers that this locus can be understood neither from human reason nor from the law, but only on the basis of the gospel. This was a fundamental axiom for the Wittenberg conception of good pastoral care. “Predestination” is to be discussed only to highlight