ERIK H. HERRMANN. At the end of his German treatise Address to the Christian Nobility (An den christlichen Adel deutscher Nation), Luther dropped a hint of what was coming next: “I know another little song about Rome and the Romanists. If their ears are itching to hear it, I will sing that one to them, too—and pitch it in the highest key!” This “little song” Luther would call a “prelude” on the captivity of the Roman church—or the Babylonian
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