Philip Melanchthon: The Wittemberg Professor and Theologian of the Reformation (Biblia.com)

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David J. Deane presents a brief biography of the scholar and reformer, Philip Melanchthon, designed to be accessible to the general reader. This popular biography situates Melanchthon within his historical context and covers important points of his life and works to provide an overview that is highly readable and informative.

We can read the Bible very well in German!” But he replies, “Without languages we could not have received the Gospel.… Languages are the scabbard that contains the sword of the Spirit.” He called for the establishment of libraries, to contain not only editions and commentaries of the schoolmen and Fathers of the Church, but the works of the poets, orators, and those devoted to the fine arts, law, medicine, and history. “These productions,” said he, “serve to make known the works and the wonders of

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