adding new ideas that came to mind and deleting whatever by that time may have seemed less appropriate. In the case of the first lectures on the Psalms only Luther’s own preparations, however, are extant, and we have no tangible record of what was taken down, and therefore actually said, in the lecture hall. It is of course possible that Luther in this new role began by staying very close to his manuscript and then, as he felt moved by the power of the Word he was treating, dared to depart more and