The promise was apparently unfulfilled.
Transcript of the Pauline Epistles
IN Egli and Finsler ed., i., 61 (the page is really not numbered), mention is made of Zwingli’s transcript of the Pauline Epistles made from Erasmus’s Greek Testament, which appeared from the enterprising house of Froben in Basel in 1516,—the first Greek Testament. There is no evidence that Zwingli owned a copy of this edition—so his transcript was made from the copy in the library of the monastery at Einsiedeln. The transcript was finished in March, 1517, and is still extant, being in the Zwingli Museum in Zurich. It has numerous marginal annotations, many of them doubtless of a much later date. “These have been copied and will appear in the volume of Egli, Finsler and Koehler ed., devoted to Zwingli’s exegetical writings. The transcript is very neatly done. Zwingli boasted that he had committed these Epistles in Greek to memory! He was very fond of showing off his attainments in Greek, frequently in rather an amusing fashion. But then he always follows his quotation ofa Greek word, or at most a clause, with a translation, so the reader is helped out. In my biography of Zwingli (2d edI2I sq. and 135 sq.) is much information about this transcript, including a special excursus and a photographed facsimile of one of its pages. Dr. Philip Schaff in his Church History, vii., 31, gives the text and a translation of the last lines which Zwingli wrote as the colophon of his transcript.
A Christian Song Written by Huldreich When He Was Attacked by the Pestilence (End of 1519)
[Ein christenlich gsang, gestelt durch H. Z., als er mit pestilentz ward. In Schuler and Schulthess ed., ii, 2, 270-2. In modern German, translated, pp. 272-4. In Egli and Finsler ed., i, 67-9. lation reprinted from my life of Zwingli, pp. 132-4. This is the most successful of Zwingli’s preserved poetry. memorial of his serious illness from the plague which in 1519 nearly half of the population of Zurich. Though unadapted has been given a tune and is found in many hymn-books of the 15th centuries, published in Zurich.] I.—At the Beginning of the Illness. Help, Lord God, help So let it be! In this trouble! Do what Thou wilt; I think Death is at the door. — Me nothing lacks. Stand before me, Christ; Thy vessel am I; For Thou hast overcome him! ΤῸ make or break altogether. To Thee I cry: For, if Thou takest If it is Thy will, My spirit ‘Take out the dart, From this earth, Which wounds me ‘Thou dost it, that it? Nor lets me have an hour’s grow worse, Rest or repose! Nor spot Will st Thou however The pious lives and That Death take me others. In the midst of my days,
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