But Luther imagined that, when retiring from before the walls of Vienna, "the Turk, or at least his god, who is the devil," had rushed upon him; and that it was this enemy of Christ and of Christ's servants that he was destined to combat and vanquish in his frightful agony.[300] There is an immediate reaction of the violated law upon him who violates it. Now Luther had transgressed the royal law, which is charity, and he suffered the penalty. At last he re-entered Wittemberg, and flung himself into the arms of his friends, "tormented by the angel of death."[301] [300] Forte ipsum Turcam partim in isto agone cogor ferre et vincere, saltem ejus Deum, diabolum.--(L. Epp. iii. p. 520.) [301] Angelus Satanæ, vel quisquis est diabolus mortis ita me fatigat.--(L. Epp. iii. p. 515.) Without, however, overlooking the essential qualities of a Reformer that Luther manifested at Marburg, there are in God's work, as in a drama, different parts. What various characters we see among the Apostles and among the Reformers! It has been said that the same characters and the same parts were assigned to St. Peter and to Luther, at the time of the Formation and of the Reformation of the Church.[302] They were both in fact men of the initiative, who start forward quite alone, but around whom an army soon collects at the sight of the standard which they wave. [302] Dr. Vinet. But there was perhaps in the Reformer a characteristic that was not found to the same degree in the Apostle; this is firmness. [Sidenote: EXASPERATION OF THE PAPISTS.] As for Zwingle, he quitted Marburg in alarm at Luther's intolerance. "Lutheranism," wrote he to the Landgrave, "will lie as heavy upon us as Popery."[303] He reached Zurich on the 19th October. "The truth," said he to his friends, "has prevailed so manifestly, that if ever any one has been defeated before all the world, it is Luther, although he constantly exclaimed that he was invincible."[304] On his side, Luther spoke in a similar strain. "It is through fear of their fellow-citizens," added he, "that the Swiss, although vanquished, are unwilling to retract."[305] [303] Das Lutherthum werde so schwer, als das Papsthum.--(Zw. Epp. p. 374.) [304] Lutherus impudens et contumax aperte est victus.--(Zw. Epp. p. 370.) [305] Metuebant plebem suam ad quam non licuisset reverti.--(Zw. Opp. ii. p. 19.)