for the Impending Diet and Signed by Luther, Pomeranus, Cruciger, Major, and Melanchthon,” 1545, Luther’s Works, St. Louis edition, 17:1150). Luther: “Indeed, many blurt out and say: ‘Why do we need more pastors and ministers, since we can read [the Bible] ourselves at home?’ So they go their way in carnal security, and do not read it at home. Or even if they do read it at home, it is neither as fruitful nor as effective as the Word is efficacious when it is publicly proclaimed by the mouth of the