Well, welcome back to another episode of five minutes in church history. On this episode, let's explore five reformers on the Psalms. We'll start and end with very familiar reformers and in between who knows, maybe we'll talk about someone you don't know. First is Martin Luther Luther, like all of these reformers loved the Psalms.

Luther set up a habit of reading the Psalms through in about three weeks and that was a habit.

He kept up all of his adult life.

Early on in his career as a reformer, he published his work on the Psalms in 1518 and again in 1519 and that set a trajectory for the reformers to publish

commentaries on the Psalms.

So first, Pride of Place goes to Martin Luther. Next up is Luther's pastor, Johannes Bugen-Hagen.

In 1524, he published a Latin commentary on the Psalms. This was a massive work and it set the

stage for many of the commentaries that would follow. In fact it was so influential in its Latin text that a

publisher

publisher convinced Martin Butzer, and now here's our third reformer on the Psalms,

convinced Martin Butzer to translate this Latin commentary into the German and he did.

Well, before we leave Bugen-Hagen and talk about Butzer, however, let's hear what Booggin has to say about just Psalm One.

He says, therefore in this Psalm, you have all of the scope of all of Holy scripture. He goes on to say every Psalm is about Christ

and ultimately every Psalm has something to say directly to the church. Well, that's Bugen-Hagen.

As we already mentioned, Boots are translated

Boogan-Hoggen's commentary into the German

into 1525.

There's an old Latin expression, translator, traitor.

And that's exactly what Booggin thought of Martin Boutzer's translation.

It was not just a translation.

He took many liberties and in essence was publishing his own

commentary well that led to Bhutzer publishing what was in fact his own

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