Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Paul Speratus" in English language version.
...sounds to us like a bit out of the Augsburg Confession done into rhyme. But in his own day it was as popular as Luther's hymns, and Luther himself is said to have given his last coin to a Prussian beggar from whom he heard it for the first time.
...only through the intercession of respected aristocrats was he rescued from death by fire, to which he had been condemned... in this prison he composed the Protestant hymn "There is salvation come forth to us."nur durch die Fürbitte angesehener Magnaten vor dem Feuertode, zu dem er verurtheilt war, gerettet... er in dieser Haft das evangelische Glaubenslied „Es ist das Heil uns kommen her“ gedichtet hat.
