In 1522 Luther republished the _Kurze Form_ with a few slight changes and a number of additions under the title _Betbüchlein_. The _Betbüchlein_ ran through many editions, and grew in the end to a book of rather large proportions, a complete manual of devotion. In its original form and as the chief content of the _Betbüchlein_, the _Kurze Form_ exercised a profound influence upon the manuals of Christian doctrine that appeared in ever-increasing number after 1522.[12] Its influence extended to England, where Marshall's _Goodly Primer_ (1534 and 35) offered to English readers a translation of the _Betbüchlein_, in which, however, no acknowledgments were made to the original author.[13] The _Kurze Form_ is found in _Weimar Ed._, VII, 194 ff.; _Erl. Ed._, XXII, 3 ff.; _Clemen Ed._, II, 38 ff.; _Walch Ed._, X, 182 ff.; _St. Louis Ed._, X, 149 ff. LITERATURE F. Cohrs, _Die evang. Katechismusversuche vor L.'s Enchiridion_ (especially I, 1 ff. and IV, 229 ff.), Arts. _Katechismen L.'s and Katechismusunterricht_ in _Realencyk._, X, 130 ff., and XXIII, 743 ff., and _Introd. to Betbüchlein_ in _Weimar Ed._, X; O. Albrecht, _Vorbemerkungen zu den beiden Katechismen von 1529_, in _Weimar Ed._, XXX', 426 ff. (Further literature cited by all the above.) See also Gecken, _Bilderkatechismus d. XV Jh_. and von Zezschwitz, _System d. Katechetik_ (especially II, i). CHARLES M. JACOBS. LUTHERAN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY, Mount Airy, Philadelphia FOOTNOTES [1] Cohrs, _Evang. Katechismusversuche_, I, 4. [2] _von Zezschwitz, Katechetik_, II, 176, 265 ff. [3] _Weimar Ed._, X', 475. [4] _Weimar Ed._, IX, 122 ff. The same series was republished by Luther himself, ibid., IV, 74 ff. [5] _Weimar Ed._, I, 248 ff. [6] _Weimar Ed._, VI, 9 ff. [7] _Weimar Ed._, VI, 20 ff. [8] Vol. I, pp. 187 ff. [9] Vol. I, pp. 81-101. [10] _Weimar Ed._, II, 47 ff. [11] On the exact date, see _Weimar Ed._, VII, 195; _Clemen_, II, 38. [12] See Cohrs, IV, 326 ff. [13] For this information I am indebted to the Rev. J. F. Bornhold, of Mount Holly, N. J. The act was discovered almost simultaneously by Pro. M. Reu, of Dubuque, Iowa. A BRIEF EXPLANATION OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, THE CREED, AND THE LORD'S PRAYER 1520 PREFACE The ordinary Christian, who cannot read the Scriptures, is required to learn and know the Ten Commandments, the Creed, and the Lord's Prayer; and this has not come to pass without God's special ordering. For these three contain fully and completely everything that is in the Scriptures, everything that ever should be preached, and everything that a Christian needs to know, all put so briefly and so plainly that no one can make complaint or excuse, saying that what he needs or his salvation is too long or too hard to remember.