2. THE
QUESTION WAS:
When Martin
Luther wrote his German translation of the Bible, he added a word where it had
never appeared in the text previously. What word was it?
In Romans
3:28, Luther added the word “alone” after “faith” in his German translation of
the Bible. Fortunately, this did not seep into our English version of the Bible
For more
info, read “Where We Got the Bible” by Henry Graham.
When
people gave Luther grief for his adding of the word “alone” to the Bible,
Luther replied:
“If your
Papist annoys you with the word (alone), tell him straightaway, Dr. Martin
Luther will have it so: Papist and ass are one and the same thing. Whoever will
not have my translation, let him give it the go-by: the devil’s thanks to him
who censures it without my will and knowledge. Luther will have it so, and he
is a doctor above all the doctors in Popedom.” (Amic. Discussion, I, 127, “The
Facts About Luther” O’Hare, TAN Books, 1987, p.201)
http://www.canapologetics.net/html/luther.html
(The Myth of Martin Luther)
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