Martin Luther, dutiful young buck. I have felt your pluck enough to understand the hand that feeds can too experience the greed.
You rang the bell on the door and crucified your invitation into the church upon it. Erasmus helped you but you hindered him.
Where you were was in the land where a hand points the finger, where that finger unless it was not in German tongue would not point to words for the people to transform the world by the transformation of the word. And the words are powerful.
You recommended the reading of other books but cried “Sola Scriptura”. You brought the canon back to the time of the Montanist dispute, where fruits must be for the flavour of eternity.
Luther you dictated your stance on the simple fact you had feet, and what a feat you enabled. You caused Thomas More to speak filth of you in between writing his own utopia. Your hot coal hymns frighten the devil and remind the singers that there are such things, as Stoker would attest.
We are the salt of the Earth, and while you are a reader of Augustine you would take the volumes and volumes of his study with a pinch.
No man hated his own body but loved and cared for it, as you did with your wife, who had pigtails and not the flowing mane of hair that you admired so much in women.
You sifted through unusual spiritual encounters and proved by experience that the spiritual was more than just sagacious foresight.
What do you think of the Geneva Bible, Martin Luther? They have a commentary and its that extra part to the Sola Scriptura that King James tried to quash. And yet your words “Sola Scriptura” were the scribal light.
Like Cyprian and I, you admired Sirach as a good book and commentary of the law. What was it for? The bride of Christ in your day was a bruised rib in the hands of architecture.
Martin, my great-grandparents were Lutherans.
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