10.5.2012 LUTHER VII - GET THE BIBLE INTO THE HANDS OF THE PEOPLE!

89.last...'at the conclusion of the section of the postille
(a collection of sermons)
that he completed at the wartbug in december, 1521, he cries out:
'oh, that God would allow my interpretation and that of all other teachers to vanish,
that every christian should consider nothing but the simple scripture itself  and the pure word of God...
therefore go to the scriptures, dear christians.
go there, and let my exposition and that of all other teachers mean no more to you than the scaffolding about a building, that we might understand the simple, pure word of God,
accept it for our own,
and hold it fast.
for only here in zion does God dwell.
during these days the conviction grew in him that he should set himself to the task of making the entire bible available for the use of his people.