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3 unusual facts about Justus Jonas


Justus Jonas

He accompanied Luther to the Diet of Worms in 1521, and there was appointed professor of canon law at Wittenberg by Frederick III, Elector of Saxony.

He wandered from place to place preaching, and finally went to Eisfeld, Thuringia (1553), where he died.

Psalm 124

In 1524, the psalm was paraphrased in German by the Protestant reformers Justus Jonas and Martin Luther.



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