Martin Luther, in his German translation, according to at least one Catholic source, changed the word 'repent' to 'mend' or 'do better' (ibid, p. 201), presumably to justify his position that one does not need to obey God's laws through repentance. Others disagree on that point and i...
“A silly kind of resolution of the committee on that business had been laid on the table some days ago. The amount of it was that each House should communicate to the other what and how they chose; it concluded, however, something in this way: That everything should be done with all ...
But the Angel who interprets the vision does not stop to explain with details the first three kingdoms as he does when he comes to the fourth beast. Here he enters with emphasis into details. Here the scene in the vision is magnified. The beast is practically a monster and a huge demon...
One building that did not survive the attack was the Castle Church, termed by Georgi the ‘mother church of all evangelical Lutheranism’, which had been reduced to a smouldering pile of stone and ash.1 Numerous treasures went up in flames, including paintings by Lucas Cranach and Albrecht D...