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  1 Text|           works of the Law?" ~ Gal. 1 [2.16] says that "not by
  2 Pre |            Solomon says in Proverbs 11: "The people who withhold~
  3 Text|        perditio~ haec?" and in Mark 14: "Ut quid perditio iste
  4 Text|               Text~ Nuremberg Sept. 15, 1530.~ ~ To the Honorable
  5 Text|            of the Law?" ~ Gal. 1 [2.16] says that "not by works
  6 Text|        works of the Law?" ~ Gal. 1 [2.16] says that "not by works
  7 Text|          keep his~ commandments [Ex.20]; but there is no commandment
  8 Text|          worshipped by John. [Rev.~ 22] So the worship of saints
  9 Text|       traitor Judas says in Matthew 26: "Ut quid perditio~ haec?"
 10 Text|              you ask why I, in the~ 3rd chapter of Romans, translated
 11 Text|      crucial. For instance, in John 6 Christ says: "Him~ has God
 12 Text|           The Wilderness, September 8, 1530~ ~
 13 Text|            German to the best of my ability, and that I~ have not forced
 14 Text|         hominem iustificari ex fide absque operibus" as "We~ hold that
 15 Text|           instance, Christ says: Ex abundatia cordis os loquitur. If I~
 16 Text|             for he cannot ever stop abusing the blood of Christ.~ ~
 17 Text|            it~ will be difficult to accomplish, that one should come to
 18 Text|              and do our translating accordingly. Then they~ will understand
 19 Text|           Christendom - and thereby acquit themselves!~ ~  But this
 20 Text|             wickedness as a willing act and example of~ Christendom -
 21 Text|          say it in the same way. In addition, I have~ the examples of
 22 Text|       already well- known). He does admit that my German~ is good
 23 Text|            it is therefore also not advisable or~ tolerable for one to
 24 Text|          Therefore, I also will not advise it and~  burden my conscience
 25 Text|            two things, one which is affirmed,~ the other denied, we use
 26     | after
 27 Text|            grew beyond twenty years ago! ~ To all their shouting
 28 Text|     violence to the German~ tongue. Ah, translating is not every
 29 Text|             I Kings 19]. Here King~ Ahab and others could have said, "
 30 Text|            my not forgetting it and allowing this~ primping and preening
 31 Text|       prophets and destroyed~  your altars, and I am left totally alone" [
 32 Text|            one righteous. There was Ambrose, Augustine and~ many others
 33 Text|              and scandalous that no amount of revision~ can help it.
 34 Text|             Further, I am more than amply rewarded if just one Christian~
 35 Text|            about me~ corrupting the angelic greeting - and I still have
 36 Text|            here and,~ therefore, no anger to be feared. Since, then,
 37 Text|             certain that God is not angry with us, and that~ even
 38 Text|          Christ. For even under the anti-Christ,~ Christ has strongly sustained
 39 Text|           under the coercion of the Antichrist commit, without saying~
 40 Text|          could not improve it. Yet, anxious~ to dishonor it, he took
 41 Text|       Elijah the prophet there was~ apparently no word from God and not
 42 Text|    slightest deviation, wherever it appeared that a~ passage was crucial.
 43 Text|         although carefully done and approximating my own~ German quite closely,
 44 Text|            the words of St. Paul:~ "Arbitramur hominem iustificari ex fide
 45 Text|          Abraham as an~ example, he argues that Abraham was so justified
 46 Text|            He~ died for our sin and arose for our righteousness."
 47     | around
 48 Text|          fellows, as if I had~ just arrived this morning and had never
 49 Text|      tongues, wanted to clarify and articulate the Greek word~ "kecharitomene"
 50 Text|          shared in the translation. Aside from that it~ shows plenty
 51 Text|            to ask for their aid and assistance in translating the~ New
 52 Text|           must~ help him see.~ ~ It astounds me that one can be offended
 53 Text|          work in his place. Of this atrocity the~ papists themselves
 54 Text|       righteous. There was Ambrose, Augustine and~ many others who said
 55 Text|           worked Meister Philip and Aurogallus so hard in translating~
 56 Text|     condemned and people~ taught to avoid it. Therefore, I also will
 57 Pre |             entire Church might be~ avoided, I must publish this letter
 58 Text|     strongly sustained baptism, the bare text of the gospel~ in the
 59 Text|         translating~ Job, sometimes barely translating 3 lines after
 60 Text|            literal Latin is a great barrier to speaking~ proper German.~ ~
 61 Text|          not have to~ answer for or bear responsibility for my translation.
 62     | becomes
 63 Text|        think about a keg "full of"~ beer or a purse "full of" money.
 64 Text|      altogether pure as "lust" and "begir" would be~ better. But when
 65 Text|      recognize "Man", "Lueste" and "begirunge" as being German~ words,
 66     | behind
 67 Text|         been German!). If I had,~ I believe that they would have hanged
 68 Pre |               Wenceslas Link to all believers in Christ:~ ~ The wise Solomon
 69 Text|        stove" or~ "abundance of the bench" is German. But the mother
 70 Text|        Testament into German to the best of my ability, and that
 71     | beyond
 72 Text|       Jerome when he translated the Bible.~ Everyone was his master.
 73 Text|       Knowledge, always putting the bit under the horse's tail,
 74 Text|           of his precious blood and bitter sweat. Therefore,~ God willing,
 75 Text|             itself a very risky and blasphemous way to worship for~ people
 76 Text|            some parts of the papal~ blasphemy, the papal asses have not
 77 Text|         done it as a service to the blessed Christians and to the~ honor
 78 Text|          the One who sits above who blesses me every hour of my~ life
 79 Text|      because the~ sun cannot help a blind person see, the night and
 80 Text|           proud and brag with these blockheads; and just as St. Paul~ brags
 81 Text|             His words, as well, are blunt - "no works" - none at all! ~
 82 Text|          justified by works, he may boast, but~ not before God." However,
 83 Text|             work~ (as St. Paul also boasts ) is furthered by my enemies,
 84 Text|            good enough to clean his boots, judged his~ works. This
 85 Text|             go even further with my bragging: I can exegete the psalms~
 86 Text|   blockheads; and just as St. Paul~ brags against his madly raving
 87 Text|             one thing is~ right but brand the telling of this right
 88 Text|             answer to their useless braying about~ that word "sola"
 89 Text|           should say. And there are brazen~ idiots among them who have
 90 Text|          were to bless me, it would break my heart. I may be~ insulted
 91 Text|             am only going to give a brief answer as~ I am considering
 92 Text|           gospel~ is now shining so brightly that from now on no one
 93 Text|           and teach. How they do so brilliantly parade around with~ their
 94 Text|             think that would really bring out their~ talents. But
 95 Text|          childhood. I recognize how broad and deep it is. They, too,
 96 Text|            It is said, "The one who builds along the pathway has many~
 97 Text|            will not advise it and~  burden my conscience with the iniquities
 98 Pre |     scoundrel for having hidden and buried his money in the ground. ~
 99 Text|              making of heretics and burning of them, when it is clear
100 Text|         spoke with Daniel, when he~ called him "Chamudoth" and "Ish
101 Pre |           publish this letter which came into my possession~ through
102 Text|          the~ Papists together were capable of translating even one
103 Text|             fault, has been held in captivity. ~ And still the asses would
104 Text|             at Worms which although carefully done and approximating my
105 Text|             number of such everyday cases.~ ~ In all these phrases,
106 Text|           to Christendom the damage caused~ by their own negligence.
107 Text|             me that the Papists are causing~ a great fuss because St.
108 Text|         aware of any and would most certainly~ be unwilling to intentionally
109 Text|           sola (alone), and that my changing of the words of God is not
110 Pre |             Testaments. It has been charged by the despisers of truth
111 Text|              the dear man, the dear child. I do not~ know if one can
112 Text|             their science since my~ childhood. I recognize how broad and
113 Pre |             the Lord and the entire Church might be~ avoided, I must
114 Text|           Greek~ tongues, wanted to clarify and articulate the Greek
115 Text|             were not good enough to clean his boots, judged his~ works.
116 Text|            nicht" or "kein" may be~ clearer and more complete. To be
117 Text|             complaining against the clergy throughout the world,~ and
118 Text|         priests and monks seek this cloak for their~ blasphemies.
119 Text|         unknowingly,~ and under the coercion of the Antichrist commit,
120 Text|        taken or wanted even a small coin in return. Neither have
121 Text|             Word of God to sustain, comfort and save us in~ the times
122 Text|             can pray,~ they cannot. Coming down to their level, I can
123 Text|          those who do not keep his~ commandments [Ex.20]; but there is no
124 Text|              while at the same time commending the Bungler's New~ Testament
125 Text|          coercion of the Antichrist commit, without saying~ anything
126 Text|         Testaments side by side and compare them. You will see who did~
127 Text|        confronting the~ people also compel it so they do not continue
128 Text|          translated into German and completed, all can~ read and criticize
129 Pre |             This verse speaks truly concerning all that can serve the common~
130 Text|           point out the reasons and concerns behind my~ words. I have
131 Text|             they say, "this way you condemn all of Christendom which~
132 Text|             talk like that you~ are condemning all the people of God."
133 Text|           holy fathers. The dangers confronting the~ people also compel
134 Text|           you might say that I have conscientiously translated the~ New Testament
135 Text|       taught by the counsel and the consent of Christendom. There is~
136 Text|             a brief answer as~ I am considering publishing a sermon on the
137 Text|        alone. Oh what a marvelous,~ constructive and inoffensive teaching
138 Text|            St. Paul's text does not contain the word~ sola (alone),
139 Text|            just does not fit in the context.~ ~ Why should I talk about
140 Text|           solum" and "sola". I have continually~ tried translating in a
141 Text|          one ought only do what is~ contrary to the law as it is said
142 Text|            do not recognize that it conveys the sense of the text -~
143 Text|           Christ says: Ex abundatia cordis os loquitur. If I~ am to
144 Text|         even that would not yet be~ correct, as "abundance of the heart"
145 Text|          the papists rant about me~ corrupting the angelic greeting - and
146 Text|        preening to continue without cost.~ ~ And again, you know
147 Text|            ever been~ taught by the counsel and the consent of Christendom.
148 Text|      subject for now -~ but you can count on my not forgetting it
149 Text|            too~ magnanimous, or too courageous, though even that would
150 Text|           And the~ papal asses have courageously withstood such complaining
151 Text|        knotheads stare at them like cows at a new gate, while at
152 Text|           shows plenty of skill and craftsmanship there.~ ~ So much for translating
153 Text|          the Lord's Prayer, and the Creed. By this means he~ sustained
154 Text|            papal ass or mule as my~ critic, or judge. They have not
155 Text|             too weak for them to be critical of my~ translating. I know
156 Text|         just ignore it and keep his criticism to himself, for~ I will
157 Text|        completed, all can~ read and criticize it. One can now read three
158 Text|            permission. Should it be criticized, I will do it~ myself. If
159 Text|             the one who dislikes or criticizes my translations without~
160 Text|        appeared that a~ passage was crucial. For instance, in John 6
161 Text|           the law is~ condemned and cursed before God and one ought
162 Text|             give to Christendom the damage caused~ by their own negligence.
163 Text|            of the holy fathers. The dangers confronting the~ people
164 Text|             and demanded it. He~ is dealing with the main point of Christian
165 Text|             recognize how broad and deep it is. They, too, know~
166 Text|           urgently necessitated and demanded it. He~ is dealing with
167 Text|            single passage from God~ demanding us to call upon either saints
168 Text|             is affirmed,~ the other denied, we use the word "solum"
169 Text|       language. However, I was~ not depending upon or following the nature
170 Text|              languages with so much depth of emotion that it pierces
171 Text|      diligently, I~ should not have deserved to live or have a sound
172 Text|          answer from me - if you so desire.~ ~ On the first hand, if
173 Text|             and "Ish chamudoth, vir desiriorum", that~ is "Dear Daniel."
174 Pre |             has been charged by the despisers of truth that~ the text
175 Text|             me when his prince in a detestable preface~ condemned my work
176 Text|               without the slightest deviation, wherever it appeared that
177 Text|      themselves out of their~ great devotion to dear Mary and because
178 Pre |          any Hebrew or Greek. It is devoutly~ hoped that with this publication
179 Text|      philosophers? And I. They are~ dialecticians? I am too. They are lecturers?
180 Text|        their level, I can do their~ dialectics and philosophy better than
181 Text|           nobody wants the~ task of digging out the rocks and hindrances.
182 Text|    translated a thousand times more diligently, I~ should not have deserved
183 Text|           like a~ stranger in their discipline, these incurable fellows,
184 Text|           topic at hand. We are now discussing the~ Word of God. What Christendom
185 Pre |             as there has been~ much discussion about the translating of
186 Text|        improve it. Yet, anxious~ to dishonor it, he took my New Testament
187 Text|            devil~ repay the one who dislikes or criticizes my translations
188 Text|          still be a~ doctor, even a distinguished one. I am certain that they
189 Text|        There is~ nothing there but "districte precipiendo mandamus" ["
190 Text|        irrelevant idea in order~ to divert us from the topic at hand.
191 Text|      particular harm as far as the~ document is concerned. That is why
192 Text|         less than even the miller's donkey for they have~ never tried
193 Text|             paint the Devil on the~ door - he will already be present.~ ~
194     | down
195 Text|         have seen that bungler from Dresden play master to my New~ Testament. (
196 Text|        steeped in it to have nearly drowned. But the light of the gospel~
197 Text|             only eaten and not yet~ drunk"; "Did you write it only
198 Text|           much reverence for Christ due~ to the Jews who shared
199 Text|          There is no such~ thing as earning the world's thanks. Even
200 Text|            sun, nor with heaven and earth, or even the death of~ his
201 Text|       chapter~ of Aristotle, I will eat my hat! No, I am not overdoing
202 Text|         allein) grain"; I have only eaten and not yet~ drunk"; "Did
203 Text|         danger will~ perish by it" [Ecclus. 3], and God's commandment
204 Text|           it pierces the heart~ and echoes throughout as it does in
205 Text|           would have stated it most effectively. ~ Therefore, it will remain
206 Text|              that I gave my~ utmost effort and care and I had no ulterior
207 Text|     languages with so much depth of emotion that it pierces the heart~
208 Text|           Mary, dear God, the dear~ emperor, the dear prince, the dear
209 Text|       Luther's name but that of his enemy, is to~ be read. What better
210 Text|            his master. He alone was entirely incompetent as~ people,
211 Text|           translate into German~ an epistle of St. Paul's or one of
212 Text|          also~ do - that we are his equal in goodness and power. This
213 Text|         remain mine. If I have made errors~ within it (although I am
214 Text|          from faith, losing Christ, especially at this time~ when they
215 Text|        perditio iste unguenti facta est?" ~ Subsequently, for these
216 Text|          thereby seeking glory~ and esteem through the slandered work
217     | etc
218 Text|         external work but only the~ eternal faith in the heart that
219 Text|          are a~ vast number of such everyday cases.~ ~ In all these phrases,
220     | Everyone
221     | everything
222 Text|         said in Rom. 3: "Why not do evil so~ that there might be
223 Text|            gone ahead, ignoring the exact wording in the~ original.
224 Text|            In addition, I have~ the examples of the holy fathers. The
225 Text|             with my bragging: I can exegete the psalms~ and the prophets,
226 Text|             Some of them have never existed! To each of these~ saints
227 Text|          and job translating is by~ experience, so I will not tolerate
228 Text|              trained, educated, and experienced heart is required.~ So I
229 Text|             Hebrew "ish~ chamudoth" expresses. I discover that the German
230 Text|          clear and complete~ German expression.~ ~ We do not have to ask
231 Text|          German also knows what an~ expressive word "dear"(liebe) is: dear
232 Text|     resurrection? It must not be an external work but only the~ eternal
233 Text|          this~ waste?" or "Why this extravagance?" Even "it is a shame about
234 Text|             to live or have a sound eye for even a~ single hour.
235 Text|           and still see with my own eyes that not one of~ them knows
236 Text|         quid perditio iste unguenti facta est?" ~ Subsequently, for
237 Pre |         take this work to heart and faithfully pray to God for a~ proper
238 Text|             they might stumble and~ fall and learn that they are
239 Text|        required.~ So I hold that no false Christian or divisive spirit
240 Pre |          has been modified and even falsified in many places,~ which has
241 Text|            me no particular harm as far as the~ document is concerned.
242 Text|       sacrament and, not by its own fault, has been held in captivity. ~
243 Text|         Honorable and Worthy N., my favorite lord and friend.~ ~ Grace
244 Text|           therefore, no anger to be feared. Since, then, there is on
245 Text|            another over pestilence, fever and all~ sorts of plagues.
246 Text|   Arbitramur hominem iustificari ex fide absque operibus" as "We~
247 Text|          However, I have used "sola fides" in other places,~ and I
248 Text|      plowing goes nicely in a clear field. But nobody wants the~ task
249 Text|          common man say this: "What fills the heart overflows the~
250 Text|        never take from me until the final day.~ ~ Yet I have not just
251 Text|       already be present.~ ~ We can finally be certain that God is not
252 Text|          more clearly, putting the~ finishing touches on it by saying "
253 Text|        particular one just does not fit in the context.~ ~ Why should
254 Text|             who are weak and of the flesh~ participate in idolatry,
255 Text|        going to become students and followers of the papists. ~ Rather
256 Text|          was~ not depending upon or following the nature of language when
257 Text|            but works of the law! It follows that one could~ take offense
258 Text|           it. Are they not~ insane, foolish and ridiculous? They will
259 Text|            slandered, condemned and forbade my New Testament,~ when
260 Text|      preface~ condemned my work and forbid all from reading Luther'
261 Text|           do~ it as well. No one is forbidden to do it better. If someone
262 Text|           pulled~ away from them by force. It is for these reasons
263 Text|            to say it as plainly and forcefully~ as possible: "Faith alone
264 Text|             you can count on my not forgetting it and allowing this~ primping
265 Text|          sins. God could~ very well forgive the sins they had to unwillingly,
266 Text|           the Lord's Prayer for the forgiveness of sins. God could~ very
267 Text|            gladly see a papist come forward and translate into German~
268 Text|            or refrain from speaking freely about~ faith? Gracious,
269 Text| resurrection alone~ which saves and frees us from sin, as Paul writes
270 Pre |         such as these. So I ask all friends of the Truth to~ seriously
271 Text|           which I will respond more fully on this matter (God willing).~ ~
272 Text|           St. Paul also boasts ) is furthered by my enemies, and that~
273 Text|  simultaneously right and wrong.~ ~ Furthermore, I am not the only one,
274 Text|            the works of the Law?" ~ Gal. 1 [2.16] says that "not
275 Text|             them like cows at a new gate, while at the same~ time
276 Text|    correctly and well, I would have gathered up enough~ humility to ask
277 Text|   conscience, give witness - that I gave my~ utmost effort and care
278 Text|            words of Matthew "Liber~ Generationis" into German, not one of
279 Text|           you~ lovely maiden", "you gentle girl" and so on. A translator
280 Text|          words are put together you get "you man of~ desires" and
281 Text|         themselves!~ ~  But this is getting too long. Let this be enough
282 Text|          God the Father signified~ (gezeiehent)" or even "God the Father
283 Text|         lovely maiden", "you gentle girl" and so on. A translator
284 Text|          for his judge to say. I am glad and satisfied that my work~ (
285 Text|           own name, thereby seeking glory~ and esteem through the
286 Text|             removed my prefaces and glosses, replacing them with~ his
287 Text|            devout, honest, sincere, God-fearing~ Christian, trained, educated,
288 Pre |      publication the slander of the godless will~ be stopped and the
289 Text|         saints have~ been made into gods, and that they are to be
290 Text|         along nicely. ~ The plowing goes nicely in a clear field.
291 Text|            that we are his equal in goodness and power. This is the~
292 Text|          against me. Yet I~ readily grant them this as it tickles
293 Text|          that God is a~ jealous God granting their iniquities on those
294 Text|           On Justification" (if God grants me grace).~ ~ On the other
295 Text|        angel greets Mary, he says: "Greetings to you, Mary,~ full of grace,
296 Text|       better.~ ~ Now when the angel greets Mary, he says: "Greetings
297 Text|         science, teaching me what I grew beyond twenty years ago! ~
298 Pre |             buried his money in the ground. ~ So that this curse of
299 Text|       market about this. We must be guided by their tongue, the manner~
300 Text|      Matthew 26: "Ut quid perditio~ haec?" and in Mark 14: "Ut quid
301 Text|          can do, I can do. Yet they handle me like a~ stranger in their
302 Text|             they do not continue to hang onto works~ and wander away
303 Text|        believe that they would have hanged themselves out of their~
304 Text|             accurate German. It has happened~ that I have sometimes searched
305 Text|          This murmuring proves how~ happy Christians have been over
306 Text|            and screaming I join the harlot in singing: ~ "I have known
307 Text|            it does me no particular harm as far as the~ document
308 Text|            Aristotle, I will eat my hat! No, I am not overdoing
309 Pre |          like a lazy~ scoundrel for having hidden and buried his money
310 Text|             this that~ slanders and heaps shame on someone else's
311 Text|          good works", when all they hear is about the~ preaching
312 Text|       morning and had never seen or heard what they~ know and teach.
313 Text|           to be too~ long and their hee-haws too weak for them to be
314 Text|            of the devil and gone to hell? Many children and young~
315 Text|          the salutation: "God says~ hello, Mary dear" (for that is
316 Text|           death, saying that it is~ helped by our works, and that whatever
317 Text|              I have, along with my~ helpers, gone ahead and have kept
318 Text|              Here the word "allein" helps~ the word "kein" so much
319 Text|             and~ yet it seems to be heresy if someone mentions it.
320 Text|           we not say so? It is not~ heretical that faith alone holds on
321 Text|             raving, this~ making of heretics and burning of them, when
322 Pre |          lazy~ scoundrel for having hidden and buried his money in
323 Text|          heretical that faith alone holds on to Christ and gives life;
324 Text|          there is nothing there but holiness!~ Therefore to this you
325 Text|           of St. Paul:~ "Arbitramur hominem iustificari ex fide absque
326 Text|             think. A right, devout, honest, sincere, God-fearing~ Christian,
327 Text|              would be a fine way of honoring Christ's death, saying that
328 Pre |           or Greek. It is devoutly~ hoped that with this publication
329 Text|            wrong, regardless of how horrible the lies~ involved. In other
330 Text|           putting the bit under the horse's tail, and not~ judging
331 Text|          known for seven years that horseshoe nails are iron."~ ~ So this
332 Text|              than "abundance of the house, "abundance of the stove"
333 Text|           and~ Christ, and trust in humanity, it is indeed difficult
334 Text|            have gathered up enough~ humility to ask for their aid and
335 Text|         They inject this irrelevant idea in order~ to divert us from
336 Text|          say. And there are brazen~ idiots among them who have never
337 Text|           must have been altogether idle to~ have let the saints
338 Text|           the flesh~ participate in idolatry, against the first commandment
339 Text|           have not just gone ahead, ignoring the exact wording in the~
340 Text|         sweet and that he could not improve it. Yet, anxious~ to dishonor
341 Pre |             Scriptures towards the~ improvement and increase of our common
342 Text|       master. He alone was entirely incompetent as~ people, who were not
343 Pre |        towards the~ improvement and increase of our common Christendom.
344 Text|             their discipline, these incurable fellows, as if I had~ just
345 Text|            a participant in it. No~ indulgence can be wrong, regardless
346 Text|          offensive tone that people infer~ from it that need not do
347 Text|             is not condemned." They inject this irrelevant idea in
348 Text|        marvelous,~ constructive and inoffensive teaching that would be,
349 Text|         have sometimes searched and inquired about a single word~ for
350 Text|          mentions it. Are they not~ insane, foolish and ridiculous?
351 Text|         nature of language when I~  inserted the word "solum" (alone)
352 Text|             strongly against works, insisting on faith alone for no~ other
353 Text|    acknowledge me as a workman with integrity. I do not care about~ the
354 Text|            work,~ understanding and intelligence is needed for a good translation.~
355 Text|      concerned. That is why I never intended to write in~ opposition
356 Text|          that is what the angel was intending to say~ and what he would
357 Text|          certainly~ be unwilling to intentionally mistranslate a single letter)
358 Text|            would pawn of on us this intolerable tyranny~ of their own wickedness
359 Text|            human~ nonsense, our own invention separated from the word
360 Text|           of how horrible the lies~ involved. In other words, there is
361 Text|            that horseshoe nails are iron."~ ~ So this can be the
362 Text|        condemned." They inject this irrelevant idea in order~ to divert
363 Text|           and not worship of God in Israel. For~ Elijah says, "Lord,
364 Text|     vengeance?!~ ~ Returning to the issue at hand, if your Papist
365 Text|          Mark 14: "Ut quid perditio iste unguenti facta est?" ~ Subsequently,
366 Text|          same thing." Sic volo, sic iubeo, sit pro ratione~ voluntas. (
367 Text|          Paul:~ "Arbitramur hominem iustificari ex fide absque operibus"
368 Text|       intercede~ for them. Why even Jacob the patriarch did not ask
369 Text|             God says that God is a~ jealous God granting their iniquities
370 Text|              also like this for St. Jerome when he translated the Bible.~
371 Text|    reverence for Christ due~ to the Jews who shared in the translation.
372 Text|            shouting and screaming I join the harlot in singing: ~ "
373 Text|            also serve to his honor, joyfully and~ sincerely. I may be
374 Text|          enough to clean his boots, judged his~ works. This is why
375 Text|          the horse's tail, and not~ judging itself for that is the world'
376 Text|         articulate the Greek word~ "kecharitomene" that the angel used. And
377 Text|         would have to think about a keg "full of"~ beer or a purse "
378 Text|           alone" [I Kings 19]. Here King~ Ahab and others could have
379 Text|           myself the~ trouble, as I knew and still see with my own
380 Text|           are not there. And these~ knotheads stare at them like cows
381 Text|             death and resurrection. Knowing that they cannot be~ saved
382 Text|        liebe" in Latin or in other~ languages with so much depth of emotion
383 Text|             translator must~ have a large vocabulary so he can have
384     | last
385 Text|             to it. But I did have a laugh at the great wisdom that~
386 Text|         alle) works~ of any (aller) laws." That would have stated
387 Text|       follow these asses, they will lay the original before me~
388 Pre |           unfaithful servant like a lazy~ scoundrel for having hidden
389 Text|              however, that they are learning to speak and write German
390     | least
391 Text|   dialecticians? I am too. They are lecturers? So am I. They~ write books?
392 Text|              that - it is fact! The letters s-o-l-a are not there. And
393 Text|        cannot. Coming down to their level, I can do their~ dialectics
394 Text|         first two words of Matthew "Liber~ Generationis" into German,
395 Text|           to read it, he can let it lie, for I do not ask anyone
396 Text|             nearly drowned. But the light of the gospel~ is now shining
397 Text|      sometimes barely translating 3 lines after four days. Now~ that
398 Pre |                Preface~ ~ Wenceslas Link to all believers in Christ:~ ~
399 Text|             Subsequently, for these literalist asses I would have to translate~
400 Text|           me - a~ language they had little knowledge of before this.
401 Text|         should not have deserved to live or have a sound eye for
402 Text|        himself, for~ I will neither look at nor listen to it. They
403 Text|              Ex abundatia cordis os loquitur. If I~ am to follow these
404 Text|             wander away from faith, losing Christ, especially at this
405 Text|            think that the salve is~ lost and must be looked for and
406 Text|             gracious maiden", "you~ lovely maiden", "you gentle girl"
407 Text|             it is written, "Whoever loves danger will~ perish by it" [
408 Text|           course, recognize "Man", "Lueste" and "begirunge" as being
409 Text|        tongue.~ ~  I think that St. Luke, as a master of the Hebrew
410 Text|        think that Daniel is full of lustful desires. Now wouldn't that~
411 Text|               So no one thinks I am lying, put Luther's and the Bungler'
412 Text|           every one's skill as some mad~ saints think. A right,
413 Text|             Paul~ brags against his madly raving saints, I will brag
414 Text|            one can understand~ that Magdalene had wasted the salve she
415 Text|         someone was altogether too~ magnanimous, or too courageous, though
416 Text|             He~ is dealing with the main point of Christian doctrine
417 Text|       Christendom which~ has always maintained this - until now." I answer:
418 Text|           ranting and raving, this~ making of heretics and burning
419 Text|          but "districte precipiendo mandamus" ["we teach and~ strictly
420 Text|         guided by their tongue, the manner~ of their speech, and do
421 Text|             perditio~ haec?" and in Mark 14: "Ut quid perditio iste
422 Text|           the common person in the~ market about this. We must be guided
423 Text|           be faith alone. Oh what a marvelous,~ constructive and inoffensive
424 Text|         Lord your God to the test" [Matt. 4].~ ~ "But," they say, "
425 Pre |             to more writing on such matters and~ questions such as these.
426 Text|   completely~ rejected - which must mean faith alone justifies -
427 Text|             itself,~ and St. Paul's meaning, urgently necessitated and
428 Text|          even then. ~ I have worked Meister Philip and Aurogallus so
429 Text|              Testament. (I will not mention his name in my books as
430 Text|             to be heresy if someone mentions it. Are they not~ insane,
431 Text|           have to offer is from his mercy and~ grace - indeed of his
432 Text|          know it less than even the miller's donkey for they have~
433 Text|          unwilling to intentionally mistranslate a single letter) I will~
434 Pre |             that~ the text has been modified and even falsified in many
435 Text|            I had~ just arrived this morning and had never seen or heard
436 Text|          care and I had no ulterior motives. I have not~ taken or wanted
437 Text|          tolerate some papal ass or mule as my~ critic, or judge.
438 Text|          for the sake of which you~ murderers have killed many Christians.
439 Text|            the Honorable and Worthy N., my favorite lord and friend.~ ~
440 Text|          seven years that horseshoe nails are iron."~ ~ So this can
441 Text|           so~ steeped in it to have nearly drowned. But the light of
442 Text|            not~ only right but also necessary to say it as plainly and
443 Text|            Paul's meaning, urgently necessitated and demanded it. He~ is
444 Text|   understanding and intelligence is needed for a good translation.~
445 Text|         damage caused~ by their own negligence. Then, when we say, "Christendom
446 Text|             a blind person see, the night and darkness must~ help
447     | nobody
448 Text|        itself as nothing but human~ nonsense, our own invention separated
449 Text|           see a fine, beautiful and noteworthy translation into German.~ ~
450 Text|            over?" There are a~ vast number of such everyday cases.~ ~
451 Text|                               Text~ Nuremberg Sept. 15, 1530.~ ~ To the
452 Text|            do so and~ are therefore obligated to do so. Therefore, this
453 Text|          even though that is~ still obscure and uncertain. Now if that
454 Text|         astounds me that one can be offended by something as obvious
455 Text|          hour. All I am and have to offer is from his mercy and~ grace -
456 Text|            it is a shame about the~ ointment" - these are good German,
457 Pre |        about the translating of the Old and New~ Testaments. It
458     | onto
459 Text|           it. Rather I have left it open,~ only doing the translation
460 Text|          iustificari ex fide absque operibus" as "We~ hold that the human
461 Text|             fact, on finds the very opposite in revelation~ as the angel
462 Text|         never intended to write in~ opposition to it. But I did have a
463 Text|          Paul does not reject just~ ordinary works, but works of the
464 Text|           says: Ex abundatia cordis os loquitur. If I~ am to follow
465 Text|           cursed before God and one ought only do what is~ contrary
466 Text|            eat my hat! No, I am not overdoing it for I~ have been educated
467 Text|         this: "What fills the heart overflows the~ mouth." That is speaking
468 Text|          can now read three or four pages~ without stumbling one time -
469 Text|              Dear~ Children, how it pained me when his prince in a
470 Text|           hold of him. One need not paint the Devil on the~ door -
471 Text|          How they do so brilliantly parade around with~ their science,
472 Text|            obviously the Devil is a participant in it. No~ indulgence can
473 Text|          are weak and of the flesh~ participate in idolatry, against the
474 Text|           Christians have done some parts of the papal~ blasphemy,
475 Text|        translation for both. He has patched it in places and~ reordered
476 Text|            one who builds along the pathway has many~ masters." It is
477 Text|            it takes a great deal of patience to do good~ things in public
478 Text|            them. Why even Jacob the patriarch did not ask the angel with~
479 Text|             that they are to be our patrons to whom~ we should call.
480 Text|           And still the asses would pawn of on us this intolerable
481 Text|          Whoever loves danger will~ perish by it" [Ecclus. 3], and
482 Text|            without~ my knowledge or permission. Should it be criticized,
483 Text|            over water, another over pestilence, fever and all~ sorts of
484 Text|               I have worked Meister Philip and Aurogallus so hard in
485 Text|             I~ am as well. They are philosophers? And I. They are~ dialecticians?
486 Text|            do their~ dialectics and philosophy better than all of them
487 Text|          many other places) for the phrase "without the works of the
488 Text|     everyday cases.~ ~ In all these phrases, this is a German usage,
489 Text|            depth of emotion that it pierces the heart~ and echoes throughout
490 Text|         believes it to be so. So no pilgrimage can be wrong,~ no matter
491 Text|          they quietly take up their pipes~ and preen and primp themselves
492 Text|             fever and all~ sorts of plagues. Indeed, God must have been
493 Text|             if over a~ smoothly-cut plank. We had to sweat and toil
494 Text|           that bungler from Dresden play master to my New~ Testament. (
495 Text|           Aside from that it~ shows plenty of skill and craftsmanship
496 Text|        could go along nicely. ~ The plowing goes nicely in a clear field.
497 Text|          all of them put together.~ Plus I know that not one of them
498 Pre |           letter which came into my possession~ through a good friend.
499 Text|          plainly and forcefully~ as possible: "Faith alone saves without
500 Text|            had wasted the salve she poured out and had done~ wrong.