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237* many lords and useless clergymen: knights of the Cross, abbots, bishops, popes, who all hold great dominions and lead wars as other servants of the sword. Yea, they do not bear their swords for nothing, they rob and oppress the poor working people.

And the lords have caused the division of the common people, inciting them against each other, every lord driving his people in hordes against another. The lords have introduced the people to murder, to march in arms, to go together in formations, to be trained with guns and other wicked weapons, and to be always prepared and ready for battle.

Through these things brotherly love has been drowned in spilled blood. The lords have corrupted the people through a multiple corruption. The people was alienated from God through the poison poured in by the Pope and Emperor. Therefore I see no truth in the reasons of the learned doctors, be they ancient or contemporary. For Jesus came as a real physician offering medicine and not poison. He came saying,

Luk. 5: 31–32,.