constructive experiments in formulating his thought and his interpretation of Scripture and of daily life. His own sermons come down to the present in notes recorded by several amanuenses, above all, the official scribe whom Elector Johann Friedrich appointed and salaried for the task, Georg Rörer, and by editors—for the most part students who knew the professor’s mind rather well and who fashioned the notes into publishable works. In decisive fashion his preaching shaped the faith of Wittenberg