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But Eck knew what he was doing he was leading Luther into a defense of the doctrines set forth by Huss. And when the time was ripe, Eck, in assumed astonishment, cried out, "Why this is exactly that for which Huss the heretic was tried and rightly condemned!"
His whole life is determined by his relation to Jesus: his thoughts, affections, words, and deeds are a reflex of the life of his Lord. All his acts become expressions of his faith. During the discussions which followed the publication of the Theses, especially during the Leipzig Debate with Eck in 1519, this thought of Luther was expanded, and applied to the idea of the Church.
'Round Werner's Eck the water runs; The hazels shiver and shake: The walls that have blotted such happy suns, Are seized with the ruin-quake. 'And quake with the ruin, and quake with rue, Thou last of Werner's race! The hearts of the barons were cold that knew The Water-Dame's embrace.
Then Eck, commissioned by the Emperor, sharply reproved him for having spoken impertinently and not really answered the question put to him.
The students of Erfurt and Leipsic pursued Eck with pointed allusions to Pharisees and devil's emissaries. In many cases the bull was ignored altogether. Luther's own sovereign, the elector of Saxony, while no convert to the new views, was anxious that Luther's case should be fairly considered, and continued to protect him.
They had found Berthold at the Eck, and there consented to let him remain until ransom was paid for his traitorous body.
Eck is described by Mosellanus as a man of a tall, square figure, with a voice fit for a public crier, but more coarse than distinct, and with nothing pleasant about it; with the mouth, the eyes, and the whole appearance of a butcher or soldier, but with a most remarkable memory.
As late as May 1521, he had ridiculed Doctor Eck, Luther's opponent, and accused him of traveling to Rome to offer his services to the Pope against Luther, and yet at the end of the very same year, he himself took the very same road.
Eck, when reproached for such a breach of friendship, declared that he had written the book for his bishop of Eichstadt, and not with any view of publication. Luther himself, loud as was his call to battle in his theses, had still no intention of engaging in a general contest about the leading principles of the Church.
He relates that he had treated many slanderous publications of Eck, Faber, Emser, Cochlaeus, and many others with silent contempt. He was convinced that he must use his time and strength for more necessary matters. His friends in many instances relieved him of the unpleasant task.
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