| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from An Open Letter on Translating by Dr. Martin Luther: Therefore, it will remain in the New Testament, and though all the
papal asses rant and rave at me, they shall not take it away from
me. Let this be enough for now. I will have to speak more about
this in the treatise "On Justification" (if God grants me grace).
On the other question as to whether the departed saints intercede
for us. For the present I am only going to give a brief answer as
I am considering publishing a sermon on the beloved angels in
which I will respond more fully on this matter (God willing).
First, you know that under the papacy it is not only taught that
the saints in heaven intercede for us - even though we cannot know
this as the Scripture does not tell us such - but the saints have
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Agesilaus by Xenophon: Agesilaus. But the day came when, after the disaster which had
occurred at Leuctra, the rival powers in conjunction with the
Mantineans fell to massacring his friends and adherents[26] in Tegea
(the confederacy between all the states of Boeotia, the Arcadians, and
the Eleians being already an accomplished fact). Thereupon, with the
forces of Lacedaemon alone,[27] he took the field, and thus belied the
current opinion that it would be a long while before the
Lacedaemonians ventured to leave their own territory again. Having
ravaged the country of those who had done his friends to death, he was
content, and returned home.
[26] Or intimates.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Enemies of Books by William Blades: the search for me, and if he was unable to read the names to get some one
who understood the writing of that date to decipher the entries for me.
I did not have a reply for a fortnight, but one morning the postman brought
me a very large unregistered book-packet, which I found to be the original
Parish Registers! He, however, addressed a note with it stating that
he thought it best to send me the document itself to look at, and begged
me to be good enough to return the Register to him as soon as done with.
He evidently wished to serve me--his ignorance of responsibility without
doubt proving his kindly disposition, and on that account alone I forbear
to name him; but I can assure you I was heartily glad to have a letter
from him in due time announcing that the precious documents were once more
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