“If the church universal receives, reads, and follows this epistle as written for itself in all other respects, why should it not do the same with this portion also? If we admit that any epistle, or any part of any epistle, of Paul does not apply to the church universal, then the whole authority of Paul falls to the ground.” Martin Luther, Babylonian Captivity, Luther's Works, American Edition, 40:25
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