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d." Below, the inscription runs: "_Augustus, Dei Gratia Dux Saxionae et Elector_. Augustus, by the Grace of God Duke of Saxony and Elector." The reverse represents Torgau and its surroundings, with Wittenberg in the distance. The Elector, clad in his armor, is standing on a rock bearing the inscription: "_Schloss Hartenfels_" (castle at Torgau). In his right hand he is holding a sword, in his left a balance, whose falling scale, in which the Child Jesus is sitting, bears the inscription: "_Die Allmacht_, Omnipotence." The lighter and rising pan, in which four Wittenberg Crypto-Calvinists are vainly exerting themselves to the utmost in pulling on the chains of their pan in order to increase its weight, and on the beam of which also the devil is sitting, is inscribed: "_Die Vernunft_, Reason." Above, God appears, saying to the Elector, "Joshua 1, 5. 6: _Confide, Non Derelinquam Te_. Trust, I will not forsake thee." Below we read: "_Apud Deum Non Est Impossibile Verbum Ullum_, Lucae 1. _Conserva Apud Nos Verbum Tuum, Domine_. 1574. Nothing is impossible with God, Luke 1. Preserve Thy Word among us, Lord. 1574." The obverse of a smaller medal, also of 1574 shows the bust of Elector August with the inscription: "_Augustus, Dei Gratia Dux Saxoniae Et Elector_." The reverse exhibits a ship in troubled waters with the crucified Christ in her expanded sails, and the Elector in his armor and with the sword on his shoulder, standing at the foot of the mast. In the roaring ocean are enemies, shooting with arrows and striking with swords, making an assault upon the ship. The fearlessness of the Elector is expressed in the inscription: "_Te Gubernatore_, Thou [Christ] being the pilot." Among the jubilee medals of 1617 there is one which evidently, too, celebrates the victory over Zwinglianism and Calvinism. Its obverse exhibits Frederick in his electoral garb pointing with two fingers of his right hand to the name Jehovah at the head of the medal. At his left Luther is standing with a burning light in his right hand and pointing with the forefinger of his left hand to a book lying on a table and bearing the title: "_Biblia Sacra: V[erbum] D[ei] M[anet] I[n] Ae[ternum]_." The reverse represents the Elector standing on a rock inscribed: "_Schloss Hartenfels_, Castle Hartenfels." In his right hand he is holding the sword and in his left a balance. Under the falling scale, containing the Child Jesus, we read: "_Die Allmacht_, Omnipotenc
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