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“Cover Me in My Wretchedness”: Melanchthon on the Rich Man and Lazarus

Another poem of Melanchthon’s, this time a prayer in verse (the meter is elegiacs) based upon the story of the Rich Man (or Dives) and Lazarus in Luke 16, written in 1539. “A Prayer taken from Luke 16, concerning Lazarus” Sick and rough with sores all over my body, I lie here, and my limbs perish […]