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You wonder I did not tell you of them. But I did not wish to have them widely circulated. I only intended submitting them to a few learned men for examination, and if they disapproved of them, to suppress them—or make them known through their publications, in the event of their meeting with your approval. But now they are being spread abroad and translated everywhere, which I never could have credited, so that I regret having given birth to them—not that I am unwilling to proclaim the truth manfully, for there is nothing I more ardently desire, but because this way of instructing the people is of little avail. As yet I am still uncertain as to some points, and would have gone into others more particularly, leaving some out entirely, had I foreseen all this.
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To Christoph Scheurl (Christophoro Scheurlo), March 5, 1518.
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Letters of Martin Luther, Margaret A. Currie, tr., 1908, MacMillan, London (reprinted: Kessinger Publishing, LLC, ISBN 0548156174 ISBN 9780548156179), p. 23.
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Latin text: Weimar Briefwechsel (correspondence), 1, n. 62, p. 152, 6)

 

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