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1 Intro | Introduction~INTRODUCTION~THE OPEN LETTER TO THE CHRISTIAN NOBILITY
2 Intro | ROMANIST AT LEIPZIG.1 In a letter to Spalatin2 dated before
3 Intro | be pleased." In the same letter he writes, "I am minded
4 Intro | publica grew into the OPEN LETTER. At the time when the letter
5 Intro | LETTER. At the time when the letter to Spalatin was written,
6 Intro | composition of the OPEN LETTER had evidently not yet begun.
7 Intro | the manuscript of the Open Letter to Amsdorf,4 with the request
8 Intro | been the time when the Open Letter was composed. In the conclusion
9 Intro | as the germ of the Open Letter. The ideas of the latter
10 Intro (5) | See letter of June 7th to John Hess,
11 Intro | were written while the Open Letter was in course of composition.
12 Intro | of composition. The Open Letter is, therefore, Luther's
13 Intro | June, midway between the letter to Spalatin, above mentioned,
14 Intro | and completion of the Open Letter, Leo X signed the bull of
15 Intro | Germany until later. Thus Open Letter shows us the mind of Luther
16 Intro | nobility" to whom the Open Letter is addressed.9 ~The first
17 Intro | chance omit to read the Open Letter to the Christian Nobility
18 Intro | the Reformation, the OPEN LETTER is undoubtedly Luther's
19 Intro | old. ~The text of the Open Letter is found in Weimar Ed.,
20 1 | they cannot prove a single letter of it. Hence it comes that
21 1 | and they cannot produce a letter in defense of it, that the
22 Prop1 (73)| of speech. See "Prefatory Letter" above, p. 62. ~
23 Prop2 | honey, words for goods, the letter for the spirit. You see
24 Prop3 | canon law, from the first letter to the last, and especially
25 Prop3 (36)| See Letter to Staupitz, Vol. I, p.
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