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On the Babylonian Captivity of the Church

By: Martin Luther

...hty subjects: here I must take pains lest I listen in vain to these “eminent teachers” 8 of mine. A certain Italian friar of Cremona has written a “... ...out support of Scripture or reason that it seems to me he knows neither his philosophy nor his logic. For Aristotle speaks of subject and accidents ... ...ransubstantiation (a monstrous word and a monstrous idea), until the pseudo philosophy of Aristotle began to make its inroads into the church in the... ... How ridiculous! The laymen have never become familiar with their fine-spun philosophy of substance and accidents, and could not grasp it if it were ... ...in and out without disturbing them. Out of this has arisen that Babel of a philosophy of a constant quantity distinct from the substance, 70 until... ... in the accident as it can in the substance. Let us not dabble too much in philosophy, however. Does not Christ appear to have anticipated this cur... ...ce we see how great is God’s wrath with us, in that he has permitted godless teachers to conceal the words of this testament from us, and thereby to ... ... word of the apostle in I Tim. 1[:7] describes these people: “Desiring to be teachers of the law, without understanding either what they are saying o...

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