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Luther's opinion of the Fathers

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Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 18, 1855

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 7, No. 12.

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Luther's opinion of the Fathers.

By Martin Luther

When God's word is by the fathers expounded, construed and glossed, then, in my judgment, it is even like unto one that straineth milk through a coal sack, which must needs spoil the milk and make it black,even so likewise God's word of itself is sufficiently pure, clean, bright and clear, but through the doctrine, books and writings of the fathers, it is very surely darkened, falsified and spoiled.