<A person who cannot provoke in fiction or real life in my opinion is a novice.>
"Unless I am convinced by the testimony from scripture or by evident reason – for I confide neither in the Pope nor in a Council alone, since it is certain they have often erred and contradicted themselves – I am held fast by the scriptures adduced by me, and my conscience is held captive by God’s Word, and I neither can nor will revoke anything, seeing it is not safe or right to act against conscience. God help me. Amen."
Martin Luther address the Diet of Worms, most memorable for it effects on Holy Roman Empire.Pope Leo X had issued the Papal bull Exsurge Domine, demanding that Luther retract 41 of his 95 theses criticising the Church. Luther was summoned by the Emperor to appear before the Imperial Diet. Prince Frederick III, Elector of Saxony obtained an agreement that if Luther appeared he would be promised safe passage to and from the meeting. Such a guarantee was essential after the treatment of Jan Hus, tried and executed at the Council of Constance in 1415, despite a safe conduct pass.Despite the agreement that he could return home safely, it was privately understood that Luther would soon be arrested and punished. To protect him from this fate, Prince Frederick seized him on his way home and hid him away in Wartburg Castle. It was during his time in Wartburg that Luther began his German translation of the Bible. |
