Martin Luther - the later years

[Steven Avery]

Martin Luther - the later years

The evidence that Luther's view changed later in life.
Today, I added some new evidences as well.

(None of this is covered by Grantley McDonald.)

Facebook - Pure Bible
https://www.facebook.com/groups/purebible/permalink/1455669944524890/?comment_id=2941923092566227

The heavenly witnesses also arises in :

Disputationen Dr. Martin Luthers: in d. J. 1535-1545 an der Universität Wittenberg gehalten, Volume 2 (1896)
Paul Drews
https://books.google.com/books?id=fIFMAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA817
https://books.google.com/books?id=fIFMAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA881
https://books.google.com/books?id=fIFMAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA884

Paul Gottfried Drews (1958-1012)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Drews

This ongoing usage in the disputation seems to give additional support to the view that the opposition of Luther to the verse was more in his early years.

Volume 1 is here - however, I have not found heavenly witnesses material in this Volume
https://books.google.com/books?id=o4FMAQAAMAAJ

Your review and thoughts welcome!

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This goes with other evidences that Luther's view modified after his early strident contra position, that went back to the early Erasmus editions without the verse.

Possibly the best summary of some of this material is from Ezra Abbot, although you have to stick with the "facts on the ground" and skip Abbot's animus against the majestic Bible verse.

I. John V.7 and Luther's German Bible
[From the Christian Intelligencer (or May ij, 1879.)
Ezra Abbot
https://books.google.com/books?id=ksdJAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA459

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All this is planned for some expansion, including the salient info from Abbot.