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501 Text|        Christ, through teaching and practice, it~ will be difficult to
502 Text|           been educated in and have practiced their science since my~
503 Text|             resurrection when it is preached~ through the gospel. Then
504 Text|             they hear is about the~ preaching about the works themselves,
505 Text|          and~ grace - indeed of his precious blood and bitter sweat.
506 Text|        nothing there but "districte precipiendo mandamus" ["we teach and~
507 Text|            take up their pipes~ and preen and primp themselves over
508 Text|         allowing this~ primping and preening to continue without cost.~ ~
509 Text|             written, and removed my prefaces and glosses, replacing them
510 Text|              under the papacy, have preserved his~ own, even though the
511 Text|          their pipes~ and preen and primp themselves over this doctrine
512 Text|    forgetting it and allowing this~ primping and preening to continue
513 Text|            Sic volo, sic iubeo, sit pro ratione~ voluntas. (I will
514 Text|            nature is already all to prone to run from God and~ Christ,
515 Text|            not treating Christendom properly. And the~ papal asses have
516 Text|           in the days of Elijah the prophet there was~ apparently no
517 Text|           We, too, are going~ to be proud and brag with these blockheads;
518 Text|          gladly. Still less does it prove that they even did the right~
519 Text|            papal asses have not yet proved that they did it~ gladly.
520 Text|             can,however, be~ easily proven that there has always been
521 Pre |            The wise Solomon says in Proverbs 11: "The people who withhold~
522 Text|         present day. This murmuring proves how~ happy Christians have
523 Text|            clear at its~ very core, proving that faith alone takes hold
524 Text|         bragging: I can exegete the psalms~ and the prophets, and they
525 Text|      patience to do good~ things in public for the world believes itself
526 Pre |      devoutly~ hoped that with this publication the slander of the godless
527 Pre |           might be~ avoided, I must publish this letter which came into
528 Text|            and then steals~ it, and publishes it under one's own name,
529 Text|         answer as~ I am considering publishing a sermon on the beloved
530 Text|            to works they have to be pulled~ away from them by force.
531 Text|          text of the gospel~ in the pulpit, the Lord's Prayer, and
532 Text|       become my masters and I their pupil. If I were to have~ asked
533 Text|            keg "full of"~ beer or a purse "full of" money. So I translated
534 Text|             have been able to~ say "Quack!" And they judge all my
535 Text|           with the two questions or queries~ requesting my response.
536 Text|           from Christ. They~  learn quickly to trust more in the saints
537 Text|       themselves are aware, as they quietly take up their pipes~ and
538 Text|            volo, sic iubeo, sit pro ratione~ voluntas. (I will it, I
539 Text|           the~ papal asses rant and rave at me, they shall not take
540 Text|           use it against me. Yet I~ readily grant them this as it tickles
541 Text|            how much more will they~ realize that they shall not be saved
542 Text|        stumbling one time - without realizing just what rocks and~ hindrances
543 Text|            dear Lord and~ friend. I received your writing with the two
544 Text|        because of such `offense' or refrain from speaking freely about~
545 Text|           saints intercede~ for us. Regarding the first question, you
546 Text|            indulgence can be wrong, regardless of how horrible the lies~
547 Text|            works are so completely~ rejected - which must mean faith
548 Text|      plainly and clearly about this rejection of works would have~ to
549 Text|             of the Law. In fact, he rejects all works so completely~
550 Text|           no one has an excuse~ for remaining in the darkness. We all
551 Text|             his Son. It just is and remains as it is, in the devil's
552 Text|           patched it in places and~ reordered it (and although it does
553 Text|       ignore it; and may the devil~ repay the one who dislikes or
554 Text|            my prefaces and glosses, replacing them with~ his own. Then
555 Text|               Therefore to this you reply, "It is not a question of
556 Pre |           the~ master in the gospel reprimands the unfaithful servant like
557 Text|           two questions or queries~ requesting my response. In the first
558 Text|             angels in~ which I will respond more fully on this matter (
559 Text|           or queries~ requesting my response. In the first place, you
560 Text|         have to~ answer for or bear responsibility for my translation. Listen
561 Text|         wanted even a small coin in return. Neither have I made~ any
562 Text|          What better vengeance?!~ ~ Returning to the issue at hand, if
563 Text|             be worshipped by John. [Rev.~ 22] So the worship of
564 Text|          finds the very opposite in revelation~ as the angel will not allow
565 Text|         closely, does not show much reverence for Christ due~ to the Jews
566 Text|        scandalous that no amount of revision~ can help it. How much more
567 Text|       Further, I am more than amply rewarded if just one Christian~ acknowledge
568 Text|            not~ insane, foolish and ridiculous? They will say that one
569 Text|             should come to him and~ rightly take hold of him. One need
570 Pre |              part. It may even give rise to more writing on such
571 Text|             on the other side great risk and offense against~ the
572 Text|               This is itself a very risky and blasphemous way to worship
573 Text|           tyranny. This tyranny has robbed it of the~ sacrament and,
574 Text|             already all to prone to run from God and~ Christ, and
575 Text|             it is fact! The letters s-o-l-a are not there. And these~
576 Text|       tyranny has robbed it of the~ sacrament and, not by its own fault,
577 Text|             Christendom and for the sake of which you~ murderers
578 Text|           German and translated the salutation: "God says~ hello, Mary
579 Text|         about the works themselves, sated in such a clear~  strong
580 Text|         judge to say. I am glad and satisfied that my work~ (as St. Paul
581 Text|             to sustain, comfort and save us in~ the times of trial?
582 Text|             so sever offensive, and scandalous that no amount of revision~
583 Text|            of~ sophistry - like Dr. Schmidt and Snot-Nose, and such
584 Text|           doctors? Me too. They are scholars? I~ am as well. They are
585 Pre |     unfaithful servant like a lazy~ scoundrel for having hidden and buried
586 Text|           To all their shouting and screaming I join the harlot in singing: ~ "
587 Text|            I may be insulted by the scribblers and papists but~ true Christians,
588 Pre |            will~ be stopped and the scruples of the devout removed, at
589 Text|          has God the Father set his seal upon (versiegelt)." It would
590 Text|     happened~ that I have sometimes searched and inquired about a single
591 Text|         always been a great deal of secret~ murmuring and complaining
592 Text|           for intercession, we are~ secure for God has never commanded
593 Text|          that the priests and monks seek this cloak for their~ blasphemies.
594 Text|             one's own name, thereby seeking glory~ and esteem through
595     | seems
596 Pre |             a blessing on those who sell it." ~ This verse speaks
597 Text|       recognize that it conveys the sense of the text -~ if the translation
598 Text|         nonsense, our own invention separated from the word of God and
599 Text|                     Text~ Nuremberg Sept. 15, 1530.~ ~ To the Honorable
600 Text|            friend.~ The Wilderness, September 8, 1530~ ~
601 Pre |            friends of the Truth to~ seriously take this work to heart
602 Text|            considering publishing a sermon on the beloved angels in~
603 Pre |           reprimands the unfaithful servant like a lazy~ scoundrel for
604 Text|            works of the law"~ is so sever offensive, and scandalous
605 Text|         Christ due~ to the Jews who shared in the translation. Aside
606     | she
607 Text|         light of the gospel~ is now shining so brightly that from now
608 Pre |             many places,~ which has shocked and startled many simple
609 Text|           years ago! ~ To all their shouting and screaming I join the
610 Text|              Him has God the Father signified~ (gezeiehent)" or even "
611 Text|          though something cannot be simultaneously right and wrong.~ ~ Furthermore,
612 Text|            A right, devout, honest, sincere, God-fearing~ Christian,
613 Text|            his honor, joyfully and~ sincerely. I may be insulted by the
614 Text|             truly does not have to~ sing much as he is already known
615 Text|      screaming I join the harlot in singing: ~ "I have known for seven
616 Text|        thing." Sic volo, sic iubeo, sit pro ratione~ voluntas. (
617 Text|           the~ honor of the One who sits above who blesses me every
618 Text|             the~ angel, and use the skills of these asses, I would
619 Pre |           with this publication the slander of the godless will~ be
620 Text|             of virtue is this that~ slanders and heaps shame on someone
621 Text|          the original,~ without the slightest deviation, wherever it appeared
622 Text|              taken or wanted even a small coin in return. Neither
623 Text|            travels as as if over a~ smoothly-cut plank. We had to sweat and
624 Text|    sophistry - like Dr. Schmidt and Snot-Nose, and such like them.~ They
625 Pre |    believers in Christ:~ ~ The wise Solomon says in Proverbs 11: "The
626     | somewhere
627 Text|           or even the death of~ his Son. It just is and remains
628 Text|           without works!" I am only sorry I~ did not add "alle" and "
629 Text|          pestilence, fever and all~ sorts of plagues. Indeed, God
630 Text|          knows that I have not even sought honor by it, but~ I have
631 Text|             into German. However, I spared them and myself the~ trouble,
632 Text|        tongue, the manner~ of their speech, and do our translating
633 Text|          term "faith alone" but but spell it even more clearly, putting
634 Text|           since it was German I had spoken in~ translation - not Latin
635 Text|         there. And these~ knotheads stare at them like cows at a new
636 Pre |               which has shocked and startled many simple Christians,
637 Text|              laws." That would have stated it most effectively. ~ Therefore,
638 Text|        translations. Thus, they are stealing my language from me - a~
639 Text|       someone else's work, and then steals~ it, and publishes it under
640 Text|             the saints as I was so~ steeped in it to have nearly drowned.
641 Text|     teaching of~ Christendom: these stinking lies which you villains
642 Pre |             of the godless will~ be stopped and the scruples of the
643 Text|            house, "abundance of the stove" or~ "abundance of the bench"
644 Text|          Yet they handle me like a~ stranger in their discipline, these
645 Text|           home, the children on the street, the common person in the~
646 Text|           mandamus" ["we teach and~ strictly command"]. That has been
647 Text|             sated in such a clear~  strong way: "No works", "without
648 Text|       offend people that they might stumble and~ fall and learn that
649 Text|        three or four pages~ without stumbling one time - without realizing
650 Text|           saints. I will leave this subject for now -~ but you can count
651 Text|         iste unguenti facta est?" ~ Subsequently, for these literalist asses
652 Text|           unfortunately not always~ successfully. The literal Latin is a
653 Text|             Christendom~ has had to suffer this tyranny. This tyranny
654 Text|          each do a translation that suits them - what do I~ care?~ ~
655 Text|            and more complete. To be sure, I can also say "The farmer~
656 Text|             have the Word of God to sustain, comfort and save us in~
657 Text|         that my German~ is good and sweet and that he could not improve
658 Text|         tries nothing other than to switch their~ trust from the saints
659 Text|          complaining with fire~ and sword, even to the present day.
660 Text|           the bit under the horse's tail, and not~ judging itself
661 Text|       ulterior motives. I have not~ taken or wanted even a small coin
662 Text|             really bring out their~ talents. But a German would say "
663 Text|             I used but~ "solum" or "tantum". That is how closely those
664 Text|        nature of the German~ tongue teaches us to say it in the same
665 Text|             is~ right but brand the telling of this right thing as wrong -
666 Text|             himself to not use the~ term "faith alone" but but spell
667 Text|           the great wisdom that~ so terribly slandered, condemned and
668 Text|           of every~ papal law gives testimony to the fact that nothing
669 Text|         this. However, they~ do not thank me for this but instead
670 Text|           had written!~ ~ So no one thinks I am lying, put Luther's
671     | Thus
672 Text|       readily grant them this as it tickles me to know that I have~
673 Text|          plank. We had to sweat and toil there before we~ removed
674 Text|    therefore also not advisable or~ tolerable for one to call upon the
675 Text|           experience, so I will not tolerate some papal ass or mule as
676 Text|            it has such an offensive tone that people infer~ from
677 Text|            of the Hebrew and Greek~ tongues, wanted to clarify and articulate
678 Text|        order~ to divert us from the topic at hand. We are now discussing
679 Text|          your altars, and I am left totally alone" [I Kings 19]. Here
680 Text|              putting the~ finishing touches on it by saying "Without
681     | towards
682 Text|             God-fearing~ Christian, trained, educated, and experienced
683 Text|        proper German.~ ~ So, as the traitor Judas says in Matthew 26: "
684 Text|         lies which you villains and traitors~ have forced upon Christendom
685 Text|             matter, which not only~ transcends sophistry, but as St. Paul
686 Text|             once been where now one travels as as if over a~ smoothly-cut
687 Text|               and that they are not treating Christendom properly. And
688 Text|             more about~ this in the treatise "On Justification" (if God
689 Text|            save us in~ the times of trial? For it is written, "Whoever
690 Text|           our~ baptism. Even if one tries nothing other than to switch
691 Text|         spared them and myself the~ trouble, as I knew and still see
692 Text|         scribblers and papists but~ true Christians, along with Christ,
693 Text|           the literal words go and~ try to discover how the German
694 Text|          unless, of~ course, he was trying to say that someone was
695 Text|            are easily accustomed to turning away from Christ. They~
696 Text|      teaching me what I grew beyond twenty years ago! ~ To all their
697 Text|         under an other's name! What type of virtue is this that~
698 Text|        effort and care and I had no ulterior motives. I have not~ taken
699 Text|          that is~ still obscure and uncertain. Now if that is good German
700 Text|           know that not one of them understands Aristotle. If, in~ fact,
701 Pre |           the gospel reprimands the unfaithful servant like a lazy~ scoundrel
702 Text|            have tried for, although unfortunately not always~ successfully.
703 Text|             that I have~  taught my ungrateful students, even my enemies,
704 Text|               Ut quid perditio iste unguenti facta est?" ~ Subsequently,
705 Text|            they had to unwillingly, unknowingly,~ and under the coercion
706     | unless
707 Text|            would most certainly~ be unwilling to intentionally mistranslate
708 Text|        forgive the sins they had to unwillingly, unknowingly,~ and under
709 Text|             and St. Paul's meaning, urgently necessitated and demanded
710 Text|           any other answer to their useless braying about~ that word "
711     | Using
712 Text|           witness - that I gave my~ utmost effort and care and I had
713 Text|         read it over?" There are a~ vast number of such everyday
714 Text|            to~ be read. What better vengeance?!~ ~ Returning to the issue
715 Pre |          those who sell it." ~ This verse speaks truly concerning
716 Text|           Father set his seal upon (versiegelt)." It would be~ more clear
717 Text|             stinking lies which you villains and traitors~ have forced
718 Text|      Chamudoth" and "Ish chamudoth, vir desiriorum", that~ is "Dear
719 Text|          other's name! What type of virtue is this that~ slanders and
720 Text|       translator must~ have a large vocabulary so he can have more words
721 Text|            are the same thing." Sic volo, sic iubeo, sit pro ratione~
722 Text|             iubeo, sit pro ratione~ voluntas. (I will it, I command it;
723 Text|         Christ, even though we have vowed to do so and~ are therefore
724 Text|             to hang onto works~ and wander away from faith, losing
725 Text|             clear field. But nobody wants the~ task of digging out
726 Text|          even though in Romans 3 it wasn't "sola" I used but~ "solum"
727 Text|          quid, etc.." as "Why this~ waste?" or "Why this extravagance?"
728 Text|      understand~ that Magdalene had wasted the salve she poured out
729 Text|            over~ fire, another over water, another over pestilence,
730 Text|             word~ for three or four weeks. Sometimes I have not found
731 Text|           his~ judge and is already well- known). He does admit that
732 Pre |             the common~ good or the well-being of Christendom. This is
733 Pre |                          Preface~ ~ Wenceslas Link to all believers in
734     | whatever
735     | whereby
736     | wherever
737     | whether
738 Text|   intolerable tyranny~ of their own wickedness as a willing act and example
739 Text|              Your good friend.~ The Wilderness, September 8, 1530~ ~
740 Pre |         believers in Christ:~ ~ The wise Solomon says in Proverbs
741 Text|        better. If someone does~ not wish to read it, he can let it
742 Text|             at hand, if your Papist wishes to make a~ great fuss about
743     | within
744 Text|             asses have courageously withstood such complaining with fire~
745 Text|          with good conscience, give witness - that I gave my~ utmost
746 Text|           ahead, ignoring the exact wording in the~ original. Instead,
747 Text|        found it even then. ~ I have worked Meister Philip and Aurogallus
748 Text|      Christian~ acknowledge me as a workman with integrity. I do not
749 Text|     translation of the Prophets~ at Worms which although carefully
750 Text|         will not allow itself to be worshipped by John. [Rev.~ 22] So the
751 Text|       difficult for me to stop from worshipping the saints as I was so~
752 Text|             of lustful desires. Now wouldn't that~ be a fine translation!
753 Text|             the angel with~ whom he wrestled for any intercession. Instead,
754 Text|             I would need an~ entire year were I to point out the
755 Text|             hell? Many children and young~ people have died in Christ.