Wednesday, July 01, 2026
Your Final Destination Philippians 3 The Enemies Of The Gospel
- A pedophile network that expressed anger at my refusal to participate in fellowship activities with them.
- Denominational executives that were angered at my conservative beliefs and refusal to participate with the interdenominational committee representing the above network.
- Local church members who supported both groups.
Paul’s answer is to look to the return of Christ.
(Like the cover of an old book, Its contents torn out, And stript of its lettering and gilding,) Lies here, food for worms. But the work shall not be lost, For it will, as he believed, appear once more, In a new and more elegant edition, Revised and corrected By The Author.
Don’t park your mind in a tempting place. Someone said, “The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking places.” Dr. C. William Fisher explains, “In Bunyan’s familiar classic, Pilgrim’s Progress, Christian, on his way from the City of Destruction to the Celestial City, was frequently tempted to turn aside and park awhile—especially in the Town of Vanity Fair.” I read about a man who was struggling with a diet. He had to go downtown and as he started out, he remembered that his route would take him by the doughnut shop. As he got closer, he thought that a cup of coffee would hit the spot. Then he remembered his diet. That’s when he prayed, “Lord, if You want me to stop for a doughnut and coffee, let there be a parking place in front of the shop.” He said, “Sure enough, I found a parking place right in front—on my seventh time around the block!”
Don’t park your mind in a trying place. In his biography titled, God in My Corner, two-time world heavyweight champion, George Foreman, recounts, “Someone once asked an elderly woman her favorite Scripture verse. She replied, ‘And it came to pass.’ ‘And it came to pass?’ But that doesn’t mean anything.’ ‘Yes it does,’ she answered. ‘I know that whenever a trial comes, it doesn’t come to stay; it comes—to pass. It’s not going to be around forever.” The Israelites spent forty long years in a trying place because of their unbelief.
Don’t park your mind in a troubling place. Jesus doesn’t want you to park there. He said, “Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me” (John 14:1). Dr. Vance Havner recalls finding a handwritten note in his late father’s desk which read, “Nothing is ever settled until it is settled right, and nothing is ever settled right until it is settled with God.”
Counsel culture
Counselling as a profession was only really established in the UK in the 1960’s. By 1970 there were a few hundred. At the turn of the century, it was around 20,000. But today it is estimated that there between 80-100,000. In Australia the number is 40,000 – a doubling in the past 15 years. It seems that counselling is in vogue. We are a counsel culture.
One of the reasons for the increase is that the number of issues we can receive counselling for keeps increasing. We have moved from counselling for the trauma of death, horrific accidents and terrible abuse, to counselling for hurt feelings, ‘harmful’ words and even political results. When Trump was elected in 2016, some school districts in the US offered professional counselling to their students (it is unlikely they would have done so if Hillary Clinton had been elected). I suspect that if Pauline Hanson spoke at Sydney University, counselling could be offered. Perhaps counselling should have been offered to the long-suffering Scottish football supporters?
Where the culture goes you can be pretty sure that the Church will follow. Which is why I was not surprised at an e-mail I received in preparation for the upcoming NSW General Assembly. To quote the letter “The Assembly is providing confidential pastoral support through Jericho Road Chaplains for people affected by the ongoing discussions and decisions relating to the overture on eldership and the broader Assembly process.”
But. It’s not your best life now! Scripture points us to our best life hereafter.
When all labours and trials are oer
And I am safe on that beautiful shore
With my dear Saviour whom I adore
THAT will be glory, glory for me!
Frustrated With Enemies Of The Gospel?
Brothers, join in imitating me, and keep your eyes on those who walk according to the example you have in us. [18] For many, of whom I have often told you and now tell you even with tears, walk as enemies of the cross of Christ. [19] Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and they glory in their shame, with minds set on earthly things. [20] But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, [21] who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.
Paul has struggled with his detractors.
Some years ago my daughters gave me a little sign for my office door that I could not put up.
“Do not disturb: I am already disturbed enough!”
I was in a struggle with detractors that included:
A pedophile network that expressed anger at my refusal to participate in fellowship activities with them.
Denominational executives that were angered at my conservative beliefs and refusal to participate with the interdenominational committee representing the above network.
local church members who supported both groups.
Yes my daughters were concerned that the stress would kill me.
Paul was disturbed by his detractors.
He saw them as enemies of the gospel.
Enemies of the gospel use lies and intimidation to pressure their opponents.
I have experienced this many times in pastoral ministry.
Paul lifts our eyes from the present dangers to the eternal perspective.
But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, [21] who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.
Paul Tripp notes this counsel.
eternity.
I won’t be focusing on what heaven will be like or what we’ll be doing once we get there, but rather, how living in light of eternity radically changes our everyday lives.
Embedded in the promise of future eternal grace is the guarantee of “right here, right now” grace for what you’re facing today. And when you begin to understand your story from the unique perspective and promises of Forever, you begin to live with unshakeable hope and confidence today as you wait for the promise of Forever.
The opposite, however, is also true. When you forget Forever and live as if today is all you have, then your life and faith will be anything but unshakeable!
Forgetting Forever
In my many years as a biblical counselor, a recurring pattern appeared. As I listened to their stories of disappointment, anger, confusion, and grief, I realized, “I need to give eternity back to this person.”
It became increasingly evident that most of the people I counseled were struggling with the situations, locations, and relationships of everyday life because there was a critical element in their story that they either never knew or had completely forgotten.
I was counseling eternity amnesiacs.(And I must admit, it didn’t take long for me to realize that I, too, was more like my counselees than unlike them!)
What is an eternity amnesiac? It’s someone who lives with unrealistic expectations, unfulfilled dreams, unmet goals, and a functional hopelessness that results when we tell ourselves that this life, right here, right now, is all there is to life.
Even though we say we believe in the promise of eternity, in very significant ways in our street-level Christianity, we don’t always live in a way that is consistent with what we confess to believe. We know this conceptually, but in practice, we so frequently fail to embrace this life-changing theology: our stories don’t end with the world we're living in right now.
What would seem like the last chapter—human mortality and drawing our last breath on this earth—isn’t the last chapter in the story. The Bible invites you to celebrate, and requires you to face, the exciting and inescapable reality of life after death.
This present life today is not all there is. In fact, it is just a speck, a tiny dot on your Forever timeline. There is a Forever on the other side of this life. Eternity is not a mystical creation of overly spiritual people. Forever is a reality. It is the product of God’s plan and design. And once you believe in Forever and live with Forever in view, not only will you understand things you have never understood before, but you will live in a radically different way than you did before.
But in the 10,000 mundane moments of everyday life, in the chaos, confusion, and busyness of today, we have lost sight of and forgotten about Forever. The results can be discouraging, if not devastating.
What happens when we forget about Forever? Well, here’s just a short list:
Our marriages struggle because we load the burden of our happiness onto the shoulders of a far-from-perfect spouse
We put way too much pressure on our children to be successful and live as trophies to our identity
We have a hard time getting along with family and friends, constantly surprised and disappointed when friends and brothers and sisters hurt us
We spend more than we earn and find ourselves in crippling financial debt
We stand in front of full closets and say we have nothing to wear
We look into fully stocked refrigerators and say we have nothing to eat
We struggle with envy
Trials and suffering paralyze us more than they should
We overmedicate, overeat, and numb ourselves with entertainment and sexual pleasure
Losing Forever
A 2025 global poll revealed that the majority of people still believe in an afterlife of some form, even among the religiously unaffiliated. The problem is, eternity doesn’t practically mean anything to most people. It’s not formative in the way they go about their everyday lives.
As a culture, we “believe” in eternity the way we “believe” in God. Most people say they do, but you wouldn’t know it from observing the way they live. We have abandoned a self-conscious allegiance to the reality of eternity, which structures how we think about and approach the here and now.
The thought of Forever simply isn’t a thought many people carry around, at least not in a way that makes much difference. The functional philosophy of the modern person is simply devoid of eternity. Forever isn’t a topic written about much in our newspapers and magazines. It isn’t a topic of interest in our popular entertainment media. You will never hear a social media influencer, news anchor, journalist, or podcaster remind us, “I know things often look bleak and chaotic, but remember that this is not all there is. We are all heading for eternity, where all that is broken will be finally and forever fixed!”
It isn’t a serious topic of interest in the university or in the halls of government. Imagine if every school required an introductory Forever 101 class on eternity for all incoming students. The finest institutions of higher education in the United States—Harvard, Princeton, and Yale, for example—were all founded by people who held firmly to a biblical worldview that has eternity as its final hope.
In a few days, America will be celebrating its 250th birthday. Consider the words that one of its founding fathers, Benjamin Franklin, penned for his own epitaph:
The Body
Of
Benjamin Franklin,
Printer,
(Like the cover of an old book,
Its contents torn out,
And stript of its lettering and gilding,)
Lies here, food for worms.
But the work shall not be lost,
For it will, as he believed, appear once more,
In a new and more elegant edition,
Revised and corrected
By
The Author.1
Yet today, eternity is no longer a category that our culture takes seriously when we think of what life is all about. The shift has been subtle and slow, but nonetheless seismic in its impact. This life-altering change didn’t begin a few years ago; it has been percolating for generations. The movement away from a biblical view of life, coupled with the materialism of our modern scientific culture, has affected the way we think about who we are and what is important.
It’s as if someone has entered the house of human culture and stolen a precious family heirloom—a Forever perspective—but most of us don’t know a robbery has taken place. We go on living as if nothing has happened, but it has, and in powerful and practical ways it affects us all. Without Forever in the center of our thinking, our picture of life is like a jigsaw puzzle missing a central piece. You will simply not have an accurate view of the picture without the piece of the puzzle entitled Forever.
Children watching Netflix cartoons have been robbed of Forever. Teens studying math, science, history, and literature won’t be encouraged to examine life through the lens of Forever. Businesspeople investing money don’t have eternity as the number one motivation for their portfolio. Brides and grooms embracing one another at the altar don’t get the importance of also embracing the sure and coming reality of Forever. The first thought of a young mother looking at her newborn isn’t to celebrate that Forever is hardwired inside her child.
This loss of an eternal perspective, the larceny of Forever, is happening not just in broader human culture, but in the church and in the everyday lives of believers all around the world. Eternity amnesia grips us all. We have bought into the “here and now is all you get” perspective that rules the day. We are Forever people who have quit believing in Forever. Again, I’m not talking about confessionally. No Christian will say they’ve stopped believing in heaven and eternity. But many of us don’t live as if we believe in it.
The Forever-ism that is hardwired inside you collides with the Now-ismthat is everywhere around you in culture. What we all know is true (Forever) collides with what we end up living for every day (Now). What we were hardwired to be (Forever people) collides with how we live (people captured by the Now). What was designed to propel everything we do (the promise of Forever) collides with what motivates us (the desire for Now).
Now was designed to be an introduction to Forever, and Forever was designed to be the living hope of Now. But so many of us have forgotten about and lost sight of Forever and only live for the Now.
Regaining Forever
So where do we go from here? Well, in a word: remember. It sounds so simple, but for many of us, we have just forgotten or neglected to remember Forever. So, pray every day for the grace to remember that this life is not all that there is.
I will continue writing about Forever in the coming weeks, but I want to end today with a simple phrase you can remember. Maybe even write it down on a notecard and stick it to your refrigerator or tape it to your bathroom mirror. Here it is: this life is a preparation for a final destination.
Many of us treat today as the final destination. Whatever our confessional theology says about eternity, at the functional level, we live as if this is all there is. We live with a destination mentality instead of a preparation mentality.
This present world, with all its joys and sorrows, is not our final address. When we treat it as if it is, we try to get from this world what we can only experience in the next. We try to pack as much pleasure, happiness, and excitement into our present life as we can. We do this because the thought that this life is all there is carries an inescapable fear that life will somehow pass us by.
Here is what a destination mentality fails to understand: our complete, present, personal happiness is not what God is working on in the here and now. Why? Because the plan of his grace is to deliver us out of this world to one that is much, much better.
You see, God has designed that this would not be the final destination for his children. He knows that this is a terribly broken world that, in its present state, does not function the way that he intended. This world is not a safe place to look to for a sense of well-being. For that, we need to live with a preparation mentality, approaching each day knowing that this world is not intended to be our final destination, and that God is preparing another world for us.
Living with a preparation mentality also means living with the knowledge that God is using the disappointments and difficulties of this world to prepare us for the next. God uses the pressures of the present to craft us into the kind of individuals with whom he would choose to spend eternity.
You were made for Forever. That is your inescapable identity, and it is your guaranteed destination. Life only works as it was meant to work when you live with Forever in view.
Could it be that you are trying to achieve your best life Now while forgetting Forever? C.S. Lewis said it best in Mere Christianity: “If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.”
A Thoughtful Response To KJV only folk
translation philosophy and the underlying Greek text should be taken seriously. Those are two distinct questions, and they are often conflated in popular discussions. First, while Wilbur Pickering is certainly a respected advocate for the Byzantine or Majority Text tradition, his position remains a minority one within contemporary textual criticism. That does not make him wrong, of course, but neither should his conclusions be presented as though they represent scholarly consensus. There are thoughtful evangelical scholars on both sides of the discussion who share a high view of Scripture yet arrive at different conclusions regarding the transmission of the New Testament text. Second, I would hesitate to frame the debate as one between those who believe God preserved his Word and those who do not. Most evangelical textual critics working with the Nestle-Aland or UBS critical text affirm both the inspiration of Scripture and God’s providential preservation of it. Their disagreement lies not in whether God preserved his Word, but in how that preservation is recognised through the manuscript evidence. It is possible to disagree over methodology without questioning one another’s doctrine of Scripture. Third, some of the examples often cited deserve careful nuance. The account of the woman caught in adultery (John 7:53–8:11) and the longer ending of Mark (Mark 16:9–20) are not “removed” from modern translations. They are almost always included, but marked with explanatory notes because the manuscript evidence is divided. Likewise, Codex Vaticanus and Codex Sinaiticus are certainly important witnesses, but modern critical editions are not based on those two manuscripts alone. They evaluate evidence from thousands of Greek manuscripts, early versions, and quotations in the Church Fathers, weighing both external and internal evidence. Finally, I would encourage believers not to think that this issue undermines confidence in the New Testament. The vast majority of textual variants are minor matters of spelling, word order, or style that do not affect meaning. The relatively small number of meaningful variants are well documented, openly discussed, and do not overturn any central doctrine of the Christian faith. In many ways, the sheer abundance of manuscript evidence gives us an extraordinary ability to evaluate the history of the text. For my own part, I enjoy reading from both traditions. The NKJV is an excellent translation based on the Textus Receptus, while the NASB, ESV, LSB, and others are excellent translations based on the modern critical text. For those who are serious students, I would encourage reading the Greek itself where possible, becoming familiar with the major textual issues, and recognising that faithful Christians have defended both positions with careful scholarship for many years. The discussion is certainly worth having, but I think it is best had with a measure of humility. The manuscript evidence is complex, and while we can hold convictions, we should also acknowledge where reasonable, informed scholars continue to disagree.
Monday, June 29, 2026
Death for the Christian
“That is what death is to a Christian: a loosening of those moorings which bound him to the earth, a gliding out into a life of freedom, a going forth unto another Country.”~ Arthur Pink 1886-1952 ——- “The day of our death will be the day of our triumph and the hour of our departure an hour of joy. No sin to mar our peace; no pain to cause us grief; no care to harass, and no toil to weary us. We shall be with Christ, and we shall behold His glory. “~ Charles Spurgeon 1834-1892 ——- “Think not that a long period intervenes between the instant of death and the eternity of glory. When the eyes close on earth, they open in heaven.”~ Charles Spurgeon 1834-1892 ——- “For the believing Christian, death is only a grim porter to let us into a stately palace.”~Richard Sibbes 1577-1635 ——- “He has fixed the hour of our entrance into rest, and it can neither be postponed by skill of physician, nor hastened by malice of foe.”~ Charles Spurgeon 1834-1892
Philippians 3 An Enemy Of The Gospel In The Churches
God’s word of warning
“To me the biggest fool is not the man who says ‘There is no God’, but the man who says ‘There is a God’ and then lives like there is no God.” ~ Dr. Adrian Rogers (1931-2005)
Acts 5
Acts 5:1-11 ESV But a man named Ananias, with his wife Sapphira, sold a piece of property, [2] and with his wife's knowledge he kept back for himself some of the proceeds and brought only a part of it and laid it at the apostles' feet. [3] But Peter said, "Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back for yourself part of the proceeds of the land? [4] While it remained unsold, did it not remain your own? And after it was sold, was it not at your disposal? Why is it that you have contrived this deed in your heart? You have not lied to man but to God." [5] When Ananias heard these words, he fell down and breathed his last. And great fear came upon all who heard of it. [6] The young men rose and wrapped him up and carried him out and buried him. [7] After an interval of about three hours his wife came in, not knowing what had happened. [8] And Peter said to her, "Tell me whether you sold the land for so much." And she said, "Yes, for so much." [9] But Peter said to her, "How is it that you have agreed together to test the Spirit of the Lord? Behold, the feet of those who have buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out." [10] Immediately she fell down at his feet and breathed her last. When the young men came in they found her dead, and they carried her out and buried her beside her husband. [11] And great fear came upon the whole church and upon all who heard of these things. A few years ago I received a phone call from the wife of a deacon at the church I was pastoring. She was distressed because her husband had apparently accidentally knocked a car in a round about while driving the work truck. He was so distressed, she said, that she thought he was going to commit suicide. She asked if I could give them $3000 immediately or he would commit suicide. Unfortunately my bank had put a $2000 per month withdrawal cap on my account. I rang the very wealthy chairman of session of the church and he agreed to donate half. I had already withdrawn $1500 for my wife’s anniversary present. I rang the wife of the deacon to arrange the drop off of the $1500 to her husband. She responded that he was too proud to accept money from anyone and if I approached him or her with money he may commit suicide. She asked if I could drive to their house and put the money in their letterbox and just drive off. I drove to their house. I put the money in their letterbox and rang her to tell her I had done as she requested, and could she immediately come out of the house to get it. She saw me drive off. I spoke to the chairman of the church who affirmed he had given them $1500 too. A year later after my dismissal I asked the chairman if he had been repaid for the debt. He said he had given it as a gift (with the unspoken implication that if I requested the money back I was not a Christian). He then spread the rumour that I left the church over money. 6 months before I had offered to reduced my pay from three days per week to one day per week so that the church could hire a youth pastor for two days per week. I did not leave the church over money. I left that church over dishonesty of the session members and those session members particularly. They have not only lied to me, they have lied to the rest of session and they have lied to that church and to that denomination at the state level. Why do I reveal this information today and not when it happened? The Lord has placed it on my heart today that whereas I believed the deacon’s wife was innocent in this matter I am lead to believe that no longer. She actively participated in a scam with her husband to defraud. And to defend that dishonest act she and he have acted in a way that is a direct lie against the Holy Spirit. Why do I announce this today? I believe the Lord may intend to act not only against this couple but also against the session of this church today who condoned the lie.
Sunday, June 28, 2026
Jonathon Edwards notes
This is a picture of Jonathan Edwards's notes. Why the round paper? He had recently been fired from his church for teaching the biblical view on communion (that it should be reserved for true Christians). To help keep the family afloat, his wife and children began making fans to sell. Edwards didn't have enough money to buy paper to record his ingenious thoughts. So, he resorted to writing on these scraps of unsold paper fans. This is, therefore, a picture of serving God despite being poorly treated and poor! Source: Unknown
Saturday, June 27, 2026
Luther’s insults
The Small Catechism from The Book of Concord.
| Page | Insult |
|---|---|
| 348 | You live like simple cattle or irrational pigs and, despite the fact that the gospel has returned, have mastered the fine art of misusing all your freedom. |
The Large Catechism from The Book of Concord.
| Page | Insult |
|---|---|
| 379 | You shameful gluttons and servants of your bellies are better suited to be swineherds and keepers of dogs. |
| 381 | You deserve not only to be given no food to eat, but also to have the dogs set upon you and to be pelted with horse manure. |
| 382 | Oh, what mad senseless fools you are! |
| 409 | For this you deserve to have God deprive you of his Word and blessing and once again allow preachers of lies to arise who lead you to the devil - and wring sweat and blood out of you besides. |
| 413 | All your holiness is only stench and filth, and it merits nothing but wrath and damnation. |
| 418 | May your grain spoil in the barn, your beer in the cellar, your cattle perish in the stall. Yes, your entire hoard ought to be consumed by rust so that you will never enjoy it. |
| 422 | You relish and delight in the chance to stir up someone else's dirt like pigs that roll in manure and root around in it with their snouts. |
Heidelberg Disputation from Vol. 31 of Luther's Works.
| Page | Insult |
|---|---|
| 51 | Your sin smells to high heaven. |
Explanations of the Ninety-Five Thesesfrom Vol. 31 of Luther's Works.
| Page | Insult |
|---|---|
| 87 | Your words are so foolishly and ignorantly composed that I cannot believe you understand them. |
| 88 | You are the most insane heretics and ingrafters of heretical perversity. |
| 154 | What you say is a blasphemy that has made you worthy of a thousand deaths. |
| 164 | Behold, indeed, this little golden work of a golden teacher! It is a work most worthy of golden letters, and lest there be something about it which is not golden, it must be handed down by golden disciples, namely, by those about whom it is said, "The idols of the nations are silver and gold. They have eyes, but they see not." |
| 175 | You are worthy only to be mocked by the words of error. |
| 183 | It is presumptuous for people who are as ignorant as you are not to take up the work of a herdsman. |
| 184 | What bilgewater of heresies has ever been spoken so heretically as what you have said? |
| 184 | What do you mean when you say this? Are you dreaming in the throes of a fever or are you laboring under a madness? |
| 184 | Your astute minds have been completely turned into stinking mushrooms. |
| 185 | You are the prostitute of heretics! |
| 204 | I am tired of the pestilent voice of your sirens. |
Proceedings at Augsburg from Vol. 31 of Luther's Works.
| Page | Insult |
|---|---|
| 289 | You are a bungling magpie, croaking loudly. |
| 290 | You forgot to purge yourself with hellabore while you were preparing to fabricate this lie. |
The Freedom of a Christian from Vol. 31 of Luther's Works.
| Page | Insult |
|---|---|
| 336 | You are more corrupt than any Babylon or Sodom ever was, and, as far as I can see, are characterized by a completely depraved, hopeless, and notorious godlessness. |
| 336 | Your home, once the holiest of all, has become the most licentious den of thieves, the most shameless of all brothels, the kingdom of sin, death, and hell. It is so bad that even Antichrist himself, if he should come, could think of nothing to add to its wickedness. |
Why the Books of Pope Were Burnedfrom Vol. 31 of Luther's Works.
| Page | Insult |
|---|---|
| 386 | What devilish unchristian thing would you not undertake? |
| 392 | You are an extraordinary creature, being neither God nor man. Perhaps you are the devil himself. |
| 393 | Even if the Antichrist appears, what greater evil can he do than what you have done and do daily? |
Defense and Explanation of All the Articles from Vol. 32 of Luther's Works.
| Page | Insult |
|---|---|
| 30 | It may be that you want to build yourself a heaven of your own, like those jugglers build themselves out of linen cloth at the Shrove Tuesday carnival. Is it not disgusting that we have to hear such foolish and childish things from you? |
| 38 | In our country, fruit grows on trees and from trees, and meditation upon sin grows from contrition. But in your land, trees may grow on fruits, contrition from sins, people walk on their ears, and everything is upside down. |
| 39 | O you wolf in Christendom! |
| 41 | You know less than does a log on the ground. |
| 46 | I think that all the devils have at once entered into you. |
| 46 | You are worse than all the devils. What you have done, no devil has ever done. Your end is near, you son of perdition and Antichrist! Stop now, you are going to far! |
| 47 | You are the true, chief, and final Antichrist. |
| 48 | How far will you go, O devilish pride? |
| 52 | All Christians should be on guard against your antichristian poison. |
| 56 | I think you received these ideas in your pipe dreams. |
| 61 | You are in all you do the very opposite of Christ as befits a true Antichrist. |
| 63 | You are a person of sin and the child of perdition, leading all the world with you to the devil, using your lying and deceitful ways. |
| 64 | You are not a pious fraud, but an infernal, diabolical, antichristian fraud. |
| 64 | You are the Roman Nimrod and a teacher of sin. |
| 66 | It is the old dragon from the abyss of hell who is standing before me! |
| 78 | You hold fast to human dreams and the doctrines of devils. |
| 80 | If you who are assembled in a council are so frivolous and irresponsible as to waste time and money on unnecessary questions, when it is the business of a council to deal only with the important and necessary matters, we should not only refuse to obey you, but consider you insane or criminals. |
| 81 | Even Lucifer was not guilty of so great a sacrilege in heaven, for he only presumed to be God's equal. God help us! |
| 82 | You condemned the holy gospel and replaced it with the teaching of the dragon from hell. |
| 83 | Your words are un-Christian, antichristian, and spoken by the inspiration of the evil spirit. |
| 83 | What happened to the house built on sand in Matthew 7 will also happen to you. |
| 85 | Must we believe your nightmares? |
| 85 | Look how this great heretic speaks brazenly and sacrilegiously. |
| 87 | You run against God with the horns of your pride up in the air and thus plunge into the abyss of hell. Woe unto you, Antichrist! |
| 89 | You are the devil's most dangerous tool! |
| 99 | It seems I must have liars and villains for opponents. I am not worthy in the sight of God that a godly and honorable person should discuss these matters with me in a Christian way. This is my greatest lament. |
Against Latomus from Vol. 32 of Luther's Works.
| Page | Insult |
|---|---|
| 138 | May the Lord Jesus protect me and all devout souls from your contagion and your company! |
| 140 | This venom - the mere smell of which kills a man! |
| 140 | You are a Baal-zebub - that is, a man of flies. |
| 140 | You are full of poisonous refuse and insane foolishness. |
| 142 | You are ignorant, stupid, godless blasphemers. |
| 142 | You moderate enforcer and eulogizer of moderation. You are one of those bloody and deceitful people who affect modesty in words and appearance, but who meanwhile breathe out threats and blood. |
| 143 | We leave you to your own devices, for nothing properly suits you except hypocrisy, flattery, and lies. |
| 145 | In lying fashion you ignore what even children know. |
| 145 | The reward of such flattery is what your crass stupidity deserves. Therefore, we shall turn from you, a sevenfold stupid and blasphemous wise person. |
| 146 | People of your sort are hirelings, dumb dogs unable to bark, who see the wolf coming and flee or, rather, join up with the wolf. |
| 146 | You are a wolf and apostle of Satan. |
| 147 | You are the ultimate scourges of the world, the Antichrist together with your sophists and bishops. |
| 147 | You cowardly slave, you corrupt sycophant, with your sickening advice! |
| 148 | You are idiots and swine. |
| 150 | Every letter of yours breathes Moabitish pride. So much can a single bull inflate a single bubble that you practically make distinguished asses into gods. |
| 150 | You sophistic worms, grasshoppers, locusts, frogs and lice! |
| 152 | You completely close your mind and do nothing but shout, "Anathema, anathema, anathema!" so that by your own voice you are judged mad. |
| 153 | Let this generation of vipers prepare itself for unquenchable fire! |
| 159 | You rush forward as an ass under the pelt of a lion. |
| 160 | In appearance and words you simulate modesty, but you are so swollen with haughtiness, arrogance, pride, malice, villainy, rashness, superciliousness, ignorance, and stupidity that there is nothing to surpass you. |
| 176 | Blind moles! |
| 205 | We despise your whorish impudence. |
| 205 | You arsonists, enemies of languages and truth! |
| 219 | Before God and men I accuse all of you as arsonists, blasphemers, murderers, and ravagers of Christian piety. |
| 223 | My soul, like Ezekiel's, is nauseated at eating your bread covered with human dung. Do you know what this means? |
| 223 | You pant after the garlic and melons of Egypt and have already long suffered from perverted tastes. |
| 242 | You people are more stupid than a block of wood. |
The Bondage of the Will from Vol. 33 of Luther's Works.
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| 22 | You foster in your heart a Lucian, or some other pig from Epicurus' sty. |
| 29 | You reek of nothing but Lucian, and you breathe out on me the vast drunken folly of Epicurus. |
| 36 | You find things irreverent, inquisitive, and vain just as all ungodly men do, or rather, as the demons and the damned find things hateful and detestable. |
| 76 | You seem to be wrangling about goat's wool, like the man who watched the play in an empty theater. |
| 77 | You are dumber than Seriphian frogs and fishes. |
| 113 | You conduct yourself like one drunk or asleep, belching out between your snores, "Yes, No." |
| 127 | How is it, then, that you drivel like people in their second childhood? |
| 144 | Just as in a picture or dream you might see the king of the flies with his lances of straw and shields of hay arrayed against a real and regular army of seasoned human troops, that is how you go to war. |
| 224 | Proteus is no Proteus compared with you. |
| 236 | You do nothing with all your profusion of words but fight a fire with dry straw. |
| 244 | Perhaps you want me to die of unrelieved boredom while you keep on talking. |
| 254 | Are you ignorant of what it means to be ignorant? |
| 268 | You speak and act only as an ungodly person does. |
Concerning the Ministry from Vol. 40 of Luther's Works.
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| 17 | I would not smell the foul odor of your name. |
| 25 | Are you not making an elephant out of a fly? What wonder workers! |
| 30 | You worship a Dagon and a god of your stomachs. |
| 34 | You have a priesthood of Satan. |
| 34 | As for the signs of your peculiar priesthood, we are willing to let you boast of these mean things, for we know it would be quite easy to shave, anoint, and clothe in a long robe even a pig or a block of wood. |
Letter to the Princes of Saxony from Vol. 40 of Luther's Works.
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| 52 | In your hiding place you use the most fearless language as though you were full of three holy spirits. Such unseemly boasting reveals clearly what kind of a spirit you are. |
Letter to the Christians at Strassburgfrom Vol. 40 of Luther's Works.
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| 67 | Truly, I never imagined, and at the same time was shocked, to see how deeply you still cling to your errors. |
| 67 | You are a coarse devil who hurts me but little. |
| 68 | Such loose, lame, empty talk, set forth on the basis of your own reason and idiosyncrasy, would lead me to believe first of all that your opinions amount to nothing. |
| 69 | Get out in the name of a thousand devils, and break your neck before you are out of the city. |
Against the Heavenly Prophets from Vol. 40 of Luther's Works.
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| 82 | You have a perverted spirit that thinks only of murdering the conscience. |
| 89 | You teach the disorderly masses to break into this field in disorder like pigs. |
| 96 | Phooey on you, you servant of idols! |
| 110 | You are a toad eater and a fawner. |
| 111 | Take care, you evil and wrathful spirits. God may ordain that in swallowing you may choke to death. |
| 118 | Perhaps you like to hear yourself talk, as the stork its own clattering. |
| 131 | You are the cousins of the Antichrist. |
| 141 | You are the sin-master and soul-murdered. |
| 146 | Just as the devil is disorderly and jumbles things together, so your writings and head are equally disordered and mixed up, so that it is exceedingly annoying to read and difficult to remember what you write. |
| 147 | Do you not see here the devil, the enemy of God's order? |
| 147 | Who ever does not know the devil might be misled by these many splendid words to think that five holy spirits were in possession of you. Whoever differs from you is a papist twice over who crucifies or murders Christ; indeed, those who differ from you are Scribes. Whoever agrees with you, however, is up to their boots in the spirit and is a learned light. O wonderful saints! What do you think of yourselves? Do you fully grasp what kind of a spirit you have? |
| 148 | You plunge in like a sow to devour pearls, and like a dog tearing holy things to pieces. |
| 149 | In devil's fashion you go out where God would enter and enter where God goes out. It ought surprise no one that I call you a devil. |
| 150 | Listen, murdered of souls and sinful spirit! |
| 150 | Stupid spirit. |
| 151 | What light can there be in heads that hold such tangible darkness? |
| 155 | We may confidently suppose and be sure that your spirit will produce evidence and proof when the devil becomes God. |
| 157 | The devil rides you. |
| 161 | You have fought against us as one would attack a cliff with a broken straw. |
| 164 | You have lost head, eyes, brain, and heart, since you know neither shame nor fear, and dare wager all according to your whims. |
| 167 | If I were to repay you in slanderous words for the way you have blasphemed so maliciously and terribly, where would I find enough words? For your sins and blasphemy are immeasurable. |
| 185 | I beg you put your glasses on your nose, or blow your nose a bit, to make your head lighter and the brain clearer. |
| 185 | You do nothing more than latch on to a small word and smear over with your spittle as you please, but meanwhile you do not take into account other texts which overthrow you who smear and spits, so that you are up-ended with all four limbs in the air. |
| 186 | You are like the ostrich, the foolish bird which thinks it is wholly concealed when it gets its neck under a branch. Or like small children, who hold their hands in front of their eyes and seeing nobody imagine that no one sees them either. In general, you are so stupid that it makes one feel like vomiting. |
| 189 | The silly, feeble devil thinks no one sees it. No, my fellow, we see you well enough. You haven't used enough make-up; you need more and other colors. |
| 193 | This is pure knavery with which the devil here deals. Tell me, you who are so pure, why are you here so filthy? |
| 194 | You ought to feel shame in your hearts, you great gruff asses' heads. |
| 200 | What a fine spirit we have here, who would drive out the devil by a devil. Indeed you would disgrace public truth with public lies. |
| 202 | Finally you cannot help yourself but spew out good, fat, strong lies, and like a mad person speak against yourself. |
| 205 | Were you against the heathen Priapus, he would probably pass wind in the face of such well-aimed terror. |
| 205 | How this spirit makes a food of itself in all its words. You can say nothing but that it boomerangs on your own head and hits you so that you not only are blackened but are made to stagger as a drunkard. |
| 209 | See how your spirit here walks on eggs, how you twist and turn, how you talk as if you had mush in your mouth and mumble like a half-dead, despairing person. |
| 211 | You like as an arch rascal and disgraceful scoundrel. |
| 216 | You act and speak as a bride of the devil, expressing what the devil inspires. All blasphemous words of this kind are nothing but childish, mad, sacrilegious ideas, and lies which are not worthy of answer. |
| 216 | You poor devil. |
| 217 | You have surrendered yourself and dared to become an avowed enemy of God, wanting to race rather than trot to hell. |
| 218 | Wither now, dear factious spirits? I will let you write and shriek for a thousand years and need not oppose you with more than one word. O how one word smashes you prophets and spirits into one lump in the gutter. |
| 222 | You boast of possessing the Spirit, more than the apostles, and yet for years now have secretly prowled about and flung around your dung. Were you a true spirit you would at once have come forward and given proof of you call by signs and words. But you are a treacherous, secret devil who sneaks around in corners until you have done your damage and spread your poison. |
Concerning Rebaptism from Vol. 40 of Luther's Works.
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| 252 | There you are, like butter in sunshine. |
| 259 | As far as I have been able to see and hear, you have no argument but high-sounding words of sacrilege. Everyone ought properly to shun and avoid you as messengers of none other than the devil. |
Instructions for the Visitors of Parish Pastors from Vol. 40 of Luther's Works.
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| 271 | You are spiritual scarecrows and monk calves. |
| 271 | What good purpose can you lazy, sluggish bullies accomplish? |
| 272 | You are poisonous, worthless gossips. |
| 273 | You are undisciplined heads who out of utter perversity are able to do nothing in common or in agreement, but are different and self-centered in heart and life. |
| 310 | You are like a herd of swine being invited to the table of a prince. You understand not such an honor, but only ravage what is set before you, even soiling the prince. |
The Keys from Vol. 40 of Luther's Works.
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| 326 | If you had looked with slumbering and only half-open eyes, the clear bright light would have struck you so that you would have had to open your eyes wide and awaken. But now since you did not do that, but only listened as if in a dream, you speak like a sleepy toper when one asks him whether he would not like to go home and he replies, "Bring me another," and really believes that one brings him another drink. |
| 326 | What else can one say here, except that these ideas originate in your own wanton concoctions, or in a drunken dream? |
| 344 | You gamble with God's Word like a rogue. |
| 344 | Heaven and earth are in danger of caving in because of your heresies. |
| 345 | You are indeed cheated and deceived by falsehood, and that is what all like you deserve. |
| 351 | You are not human beings, but empty shells and shadows. |
| 352 | You dear asses. |
| 360 | You are jugglers of imaginary sins. |
| 362 | Even if your writings were from an angel from heaven I would take this horrible document, and, after having used it as toilet paper, wipe its nose. |
| 363 | You are like swine who indiscriminately devour everything. |
Infiltrating and Clandestine Preachersfrom Vol. 40 of Luther's Works.
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| 383 | You are emissaries of the devil. |
| 384 | You are the true print and touch of the devil. |
| 388 | What pig sties could compare in goings-on with you? |
| 393 | Whoever tolerates and listens to you should know that they are listening to the devil himself, incarnate and abominable, as he speaks out of the mouth of a possessed person. |
On the Councils and the Church from Vol. 41 of Luther's Works.
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| 54 | You are admirable, fine, pious sows and asses. |
| 56 | You are like mouse-dropping in the pepper. |
| 72 | Listen, you ass, you are a particularly crass ass, indeed, you are a filthy sow! |
| 124 | You are the white devil and a glittering Satan. |
| 132 | You are pious and honest people, who cannot do anything but calumniate and lie. |
| 150 | Snot-nose! |
| 158 | You should rightly be called lawyers for asses. |
| 159 | Are you not mad, and crazy, and crass Nestorians, not knowing when you say yes and when you say no, stating one thing in the premise and another in the conclusion? Away with you stupid asses and fools! |
| 160 | You are a brothel-keeper and the devil's daughter in hell. |
Against Hanswurst from Vol. 41 of Luther's Works.
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| 185 | You have set out to rub your scabby, scurvy head against honor. |
| 185 | You curse, blaspheme, skriek, struggle, bellow, and spit, so that, if people really heard you utter words, they would gather with chains and bars, just as if you were possessed by a legion of devils and had to be seized and bound. |
| 185 | It makes me tingle with pleasure from head to toe when I see that through me, poor wretched man that I am, God the Lord maddens and exasperates you hellish and worldly people, so that in your spite you will burst and tear yourselves to pieces - while I sit under the shade of faith and the Lord's Prayer, laughing at you devils and your crew and you blubber and struggler in your great fury. |
| 185 | You blubber and writhe along with all the devils in hell. |
| 186 | I had not supposed or expected your arrogant spirit to seek such a ridiculous and childish reason for lying; you should have better reasons. |
| 187 | Since you are such vulgar blockheads that you think such lewd and stupid gossip will harm me or bring you honor, you are the real Hanswursts - blockheads, boors, and dunderheads. |
| 187 | Think what you will, so make in your pants, hang it round your neck, then make a jelly of it and eat it like the vulgar sows and asses you are! |
| 188 | I would sit still and blithely watch how you, the devil, and your sausages and your tripes vainly fret and torment yourselves, and blubber and writhe, achieving nothing except to make us laugh and make you own case worse. Indeed, I would like to see you say aloud what you write, for if you did, people would gather with chains and bars and out of sympathy would seize and bind you as demoniacs. And if people did not do this, then, perhaps at God's prompting, oxen and swine would trample you to death with their horns and hoofs. |
| 190 | You are the devil's donkey. |
| 202 | This new thing you have devised is the vilest cesspool that the devil has on earth. |
| 202 | May the devil stay with you in this blasphemous, murderous, sinful, pernicious thing. |
| 205 | You sharp-eyed bats. |
| 211 | You live like Epicureans and sows. So the fat is in the fire! |
| 211 | You no longer have, as you did several centuries ago, a cunning devil spurring you on, but a palpable blockhead, a crude devil, who in his malice can no longer disguise himself. |
| 212 | You vulgar boor, blockhead, and lout, you ass to cap all asses, screaming your heehaws. |
| 219 | For you are an excellent person, as skilful, clever, and versed in Holy Scripture as a cow in a walnut tree or a sow on a harp. |
| 221 | A seven-year-old child, indeed, a silly fool, can figure it out on his fingers - although you, stupid ass, cannot understand anything. |
| 225 | You, devil and Hanswurst, are in this matter a particularly silly wurst to lie so shamefully. |
| 231 | You have the master-devil all right. |
| 235 | Doctor Sow. |
| 238 | God has punished you by making you incapable of understanding truth, virtue, or honor, thus handing you over to the devil to tell nothing but lies, indeed, to do all that is evil, and to upset all that is good. |
| 239 | For you know that everybody realized how you treat your worthy spouse - not only like an utterly mad brute and drunkard, but also like a senseless raving tyrant, who daily and hourly gorges and fills himself up, not with wine, but with the devil, like Judas at the Last Supper. Out of your whole body, in all you do and are, you simply spew out the devil, with blaspheming, cursing, lying, committing adultery, raving, flaying, murdering, setting fires, etc., so that one cannot find your like in history. |
| 242 | You poisonous loudmouth. |
| 242 | You stink like devilish filth flung into Germany. |
| 244 | I think that if you were alone in the field, an angry cat would be enough to scare you away. |
| 244 | Is not what I said before true, that you have eaten and drunk yourself full of devils, and so spew vainglorious devils out of your hellish gorge? |
| 245 | You wear a pair of cobweb trousers, like a man who, being naked, put on a new to hide his shame. |
| 249 | You arch-assassin and bloodhound, the like of which has never been seen under the sun. |
| 249 | There you are in the chains of divine judgment, bound in hell like all the devils. |
| 250 | You pusillanimous scoundrel. |
| 250 | You should not write a book before you have heard an old sow fart; and then you should open your jaws with awe, saying, "Thank you, lovely nightingale, that is just the text for me!" |
| 255 | I think that you would not be bold enough to blow at a farmer's fence if you knew that there was a flail behind the door; you would lift your heels in quite a manly way, as though it were snowing flails behind you. |
Against the Roman Papacy, an Institution of the Devil from Vol. 41 of Luther's Works.
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| 263 | You abominable abomination. |
| 264 | Your Hellishness. |
| 264 | You are like a magician who conjures gulden into the mouths of silly people, but when they open their mouths they have horse dirt in them. |
| 264 | The very devil himself would thank you for such an event, and no one but the miserable devil and his devilish scum would go there. |
| 270 | You are the scum of all the scoundrels. |
| 272 | You are an abominable arch-heretic. |
| 277 | You are desperate, thorough arch-rascals, murderers, traitors, liars, the very scum of all the most evil people on earth. You are full of all the worst devils in hell - full, full, and so full that you can do nothing but vomit, throw, and blow out devils! |
| 279 | You are blasphemous, abominable rascals and damned scum of Satan. |
| 280 | If you are furious, you can do something in your pants and hang it around your necks - that would be a musk apple and pacem for such gentle saints. |
| 280 | Gently, dear Pauli, dear donkey, don't dance around! Oh, dearest little ass, don't dance around - dearest, dearest little donkey, don't do it. For the ice is very solidly frozen this year because there was no wind - you might fall and break a leg. If a fart should escape you while you were falling, the whole world would laugh at you and say, "Ugh, the devil! How the ass has befouled himself!" And that would be a great crime. Oh, that would be dangerous! So consider your own great danger beforehand, Hellish One. |
| 281 | You say, "What comes out of our mouth must be kept!" I hear it - which mouth do you mean? The one from which the farts come? (You can keep that yourself!) |
| 281 | You are a crude ass, and an ass you will remain! |
| 285 | Everyone can see that such a sentence must have been blown into you by all the existing devils with one breath. |
| 288 | You are the founder and master of all sins. |
| 288 | Even if we were stones and wooden blocks, we could see by your works throughout all the world that you are lost, desperate children of the devil and also mad, crude asses in Scripture. Someone probably would like to curse you so that you might be struck down by lightning and thunder, burned by hellish fire, have the plague, syphilis, epilepsy, the plague of St. Anthony, leprosy, carbuncles, and all the plagues - but these are all caresses, and God has long ago punished you with greater plagues, just like God's despisers and blasphemers should be punished. |
| 290 | The hellish Satan drives you. |
| 296 | You roar as one possessed and full of devils. |
| 298 | Yes, what happened to you is what must happen when one paints the devil above the door and asks him to be godfather. |
| 300 | Dear God, what an utterly shameless, blasphemous lying-mouth you are! |
| 300 | You think like this, "As I am a crude ass, and do not read the books, so there is no one in the world who reads them; rather, when I let my braying heehaw, heehaw resound, or even let out a donkey's fart, then everyone will have to consider it pure truth." |
| 309 | You are such outrageous, shameless blockheads. |
| 310 | You are a little pious prancer. |
| 329 | You hellish scum. |
| 330 | You loathsome, accursed, atrocious monster. |
| 332 | I must stop: I can no longer rummage in your blasphemous, hellish devil's filth and stench. |
| 334 | But what do you say? "Come here, Satan! And if you had more worlds than this, I would accept them all , and not only worship you, but also lick your behind." |
| 334 | All you say is sealed with the devil's own dirt. |
| 335 | Why would anyone tolerate such things from someone like you, a rotten paunch, crude ass and fart-ass? |
| 341 | You are the worst rascal of all the rascals on earth! |
| 344 | I can with good conscience consider you a fart-ass and an enemy of God. |
| 344 | I was frightened and thought I was dreaming, it was such a thunderclap, such a great horrid fart did you let go here! You certainly pressed with great might to let out such a thunderous fart - it is a wonder that it did not tear your hole and belly apart! |
| 349 | May God punish you, I say, you shameless, barefaced liar, devil's mouthpiece, who dares to spit out, before God, before all the angels, before the dear sun, before all the world, your devil's filth. |
| 350 | You ass, abecedarian, and bacchanal. |
| 357 | You are the head of all the worst scoundrels on earth, a vicar of the devil, an enemy of God, an adversary of Christ, a destroyer of Christ's churches; a teacher of lies, blasphemies, and idolatries; an arch-thief and robber; a murderer of kings and inciter to all kinds of bloodshed; a brothel-keeper over all brothel-keepers and all vermin, even that which cannot be named; an Antichrist, a person of sin and child of perdition; a true werewolf. |
| 360 | You are inimical asses! |
| 360 | A natural donkey, which carries sacks to the mill and eats thistles, can judge you - indeed, all creatures can! For a donkey knows it is a donkey and not a cow. A stone knows it is a stone; water is water, and so on through all the creatures. But you mad asses do not know you are asses. |
| 363 | I would not dream of judging or punishing you, except to say that you were born from the behind of the devil, are full of devils, lies, blasphemy, and idolatry; are the instigator of these things, God's enemy, Antichrist, desolater of Christendom, and steward of Sodom. |
| 376 | Here now, you ass, with your long donkey ears and accursed liar's mouth! |
The Estate of Marriage from Vol. 45 of Luther's Works.
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| 41 | With all your cleverness you are nothing but devil's fools. |
Admonition to Peace from Vol. 46 of Luther's Works.
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| 19 | You, however, keep on asking for trouble and want to be hit over the head. |
| 33 | Bloodthirsty prophets of murder and spirits of rebellion! |
| 34 | By God's permission you might accomplish something as the heathen and blasphemers you are - and we pray that he will prevent that - but it will only be to your temporal and eternal destruction. |
| 35 | You are a prophet of discord. |
| 42 | Why do you insist on filling the land with blood and robbery, widows and orphans? Oh, the devil has wicked plans! |
Against the Robbing and Murdering Hordes of Peasants from Vol. 46 of Luther's Works.
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| 49 | You are raging like mad dogs. |
| 51 | You honor and serve the devil, thus deserving death in body and soul ten times over. I have never heard of a more hideous sin. |
| 51 | Fine Christians you are! I think there is not a devil left in hell; they have all gone into you. Your raving has gone beyond measure. |
| 55 | I beg everyone who can to flee from you as from the devil himself. |
An Open Letter on the Harsh Book Against the Peasants from Vol. 46 of Luther's Works.
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| 63 | The devil must speak through you. |
| 64 | You - like the spider which sucks only poison from the rose - draw only vain pride from the doctrine of humility. |
| 64 | You have, in fact, not a spark of knowledge, and yet you babble on and on. |
| 64 | Your hearts are so full of wicked wiles that you desire nothing more than to be offended. |
| 65 | I suspect that you are undertaking a vain and impossible task; for who can stop the mouth of a fool? Your heart is crammed so full of nonsense and "out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks." |
| 67 | We see you, you black, ugly devil! |
| 74 | You are a bloodhound, and a rebellious murderer and destroyer of the country. |
| 84 | I leave you to the guidance of your master, the devil, who is indeed leading you. |
| 84 | Why should I write for scoundrels and hogs like you? |
Whether Soldiers, too, can be Savedfrom Vol. 46 of Luther's Works.
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| 101 | The excrement of the eagle can boast that it comes from the eagle's body even though it stinks and is useless; and so you can also be of the nobility. You people are and remain people, that is, swine and senseless beasts. |
| 109 | You shall have about as much success as a dog has when he tries to bite through steel. |
| 112 | You are like the frogs of old who could not put up with a log for lord; instead they got a stork that pecked their heads and devoured them. You are a desperate, accursed thing. |
| 122 | You are such a coward that you try to catch every word and evaluate it like a man who tries to trap the wind in his coat. |
On War Against the Turk from Vol. 46 of Luther's Works.
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| 161 | You are half-devil and half-man. |
| 175 | We must pray against you as against other enemies of our salvation and of all good, indeed, as we pray against the devil himself. |
| 193 | You are the army of the devil. |
| 198 | Sodom and Gommorah, which God overwhelmed in days of old with fire and brimstone, must seem a mere jest and prelude compared with your abominations. |
A Sermon on Keeping Children in School from Vol. 46 of Luther's Works.
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| 217 | You seem to me to be a real masterpiece of the devil's art. |
| 228 | Shame, shame, and shame again upon your blind and despicable ingratitude. |
| 228 | You are like the cawing of jackdaws and ravens, though not as good. For the daws at least like to caw; they do so gladly. But you take no pleasure in your croaking; you caw reluctantly, like the hoopoes and owls. |
| 229 | See what a pious hypocrite and unproductive weed you are. |
| 230 | You will not be tainted by little drops of sin, but inundated by whole cloudbursts of it. Then you will have to say that you are justly condemned to the abyss of hell as one of the most odious and vile people who ever lived. |
| 241 | You're a gross, ungrateful clod, worthy of being numbered among the beasts. |
| 241 | You are like hogs wallowing forever with their noses in the dunghill. |
| 251 | You are the Carthusians and monks of Mammon. |
| 254 | You are such an accursed, ungrateful wretch that you will not give a child into training for the maintenance of the gifts of God. You have everything, all of it free of charge; yet you show not a particle of gratitude. Instead you let God's kingdom and the salvation of people's souls go to ruin; you even help to destroy them. Ought not God to be angry over this? Ought not famine to come? Ought not pestilence, flu, and syphilis find us out? Ought not blind, fierce, and savage tyrants come to power? Ought not war and contention arise? Ought not evil regimes appear in our lands? Ought not our enemies plunder us? Indeed, it would not be surprising if God were to open the doors and windows of hell and pelt and shower us with nothing but devils, or let brimstone and hell-fire rain down from heaven and inundate us one and all in the abyss of hell, like Sodom and Gomorrah. |
On Marriage Matters from Vol. 46 of Luther's Works.
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| 287 | Go, you whore, go to the devil for all I care. |
| 302 | We should roundly denounce you, the devil's messengers, as rascals, villains, poisonous evil worms. Or, even if you were good friends of ours, we should denounce you as mad fools and stupid persons. |
| 302 | You stinkmouths. |
| 319 | You are the biggest fool on earth. |
