With him there was to be no delay.

It was the duty of all the Brethren to show their zeal by at once seizing the sword of sharpness and mowing down the godless therewith.

In this sense Matthys completed the transformation begun by Hoffmann.

Melchior had indeed rejected the non-resistance doctrine in its absolute form, but he does not appear in his teaching to have uniformly emphasized the point, and certainly did not urge the destruction of the godless as an immediate duty to be fulfilled without delay.

With him was always the suggestion, expressed or implied, of waiting for the signal from heaven, the coming of the Lord, before proceeding to action.