Luther left Worms in a horse-drawn cart to return to Wittenberg. On the way, however, he was captured by two knights and some horsemen. They took him to the Wartburg, the castle of the Elector Frederick. There he remained in secrecy

Luther later referred to this hiding place as his “Patmos.”

for ten months, no longer as Dr. Martin, but as Knight George, a friend of the Elector. Luther later referred to this hiding place as his “Patmos.” His labor there produced volumes of correspondence, answers to the theological faculty in Paris, attacks on the papal bull, a series of messages on the Epistles and Gospels, tracts on celibacy and monastic vows, and, most important of all, his German translation of the New Testament from the original Greek. Writing to a friend, he called all of this work “sitting the whole day at leisure reading the Greek and Hebrew Bibles.” [40]