Trubar lived at a time when plague often swept through the land. In letters to Baron Hans Ungnad in 1562 and 1563 he reported a severe cough in Upper and Lower Carniola, and plague in Maribor, Ptuj and Vransko.
When the plague came, many fled. Martin Luther stayed in Wittenberg in 1527, and Trubar in Ljubljana in 1564, to help the sick. So when they wrote about the plague, they wrote as men who had fought it with their own hands and with prayer.
The article, written in spring 2020 during the coronavirus pandemic, draws three truths from their writings that help us too. The first is: there are worse things than the plague. Just as Jesus first forgave the paralysed man his sins and only then healed him, what matters most for us is to be right with God.
The article is in Slovene. RTV Slovenia’s programme Duhovni utrip also broadcast an interview about it.