Wolfgang Musculus

Wolfgang Musculus (born Müslin or Mauslein; 10 September 1497 – 30 August 1563) was a Reformed theologian of the Protestant Reformation.

Life

Musculus was a native of Alsace, along the French/German border.

J. S. Bach used Musculus' 1530 hymn, a paraphrase of Psalm 23, as the text for his chorale cantata Der Herr ist mein getreuer Hirt, BWV 112, which he first performed in Leipzig in 1731.

He also published a book on usury entitled De usuris ex verbo dei, in which he criticized the practice of the triple contract, and a German version of which appeared in Strasbourg in 1593.

Publications Musculus' books included; Commentary on the Gospel of Matthew, 1544 Loci communes sacrae theologiae (Common places of Christian religion), 1563 Dissertatio de Icuncula Quondam Regis Aelfredi... On Righteousness Oaths and Usury

He also published several Bible commentaries including commentaries on Psalms (1551), Decalogue (1553), Genesis (1554), Romans (1555), Isaiah (1557), 1 and 2 Corinthians (1559), Galatians and Ephesians (1561), Philippians, Colossians, 1 and 2 Thessalonians, and 1 Timothy (1565).

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