of Christ; indeed, he viewed her as nothing less than an instrument of the Antichrist. Nor could he consider the Protestant state churches that resulted from the Reformation as churches in the proper sense: these were only socio-politically necessary pragmatic arrangements under the leadership of the political powers, nothing more. For him the Church withdrew into the congregation: only the assembly that hears the Word of God at any particular place is Church. That is why he completely replaced the
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