English can be rendered as: “What fills the heart, overflows the mouth.”44 Luther’s German wonderfully captures his own dizzying activity as writer, translator, and preacher—although he might not have been aware of it at the time. The intense emotional undercurrent of Luther’s Bible translation makes it stand out from its modern counterparts. Today’s scholars keep an objective distance from the text as they translate the Bible according to modern scientific methods. Luther, on the other hand, kept