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Whoever teaches differently from what I have taught, or whoever condemns me therein, he condemns God and must remain a child of hell.

— Martin Luther

Wer anders lehret, denn ich hierinn gelehret hab, oder mich darinn verdammt, der verdamt Gott, und muß ein Kind der Höllen bleiben.

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Dr. Martin Luther's Sämtliche Werke, Polemische Deutsche Schriften, Johann Konrad Irmischer, Erlangen, 1833, vol. 28, p. 347.

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