Luther recoiled from them as the blasphemies of "an arrogant fool"; and even melanchthon urged that they should be "suppressed by the secular arm."
"Holbein"
Beatrice Fortescue
After Luther's death, when melanchthon and his friends were compelled to flee from Wittenberg by the approach of the Spanish army, they came to Weimar.
"The Story of Our Hymns"
Ernest Edwin Ryden
"Sing on, my child," exclaimed melanchthon, "thou little knowest how thy song cheers our hearts."
"The Story of Our Hymns"
Ernest Edwin Ryden
