You can cite 19 editions (and no, they were not in the vernacular by and large, nor good translations at all). I’ll cite 100,000 copies in a translation that has lasted 500 years...
Amazing what a heretic can do, while the Catholic Church could not - because it cared not.
“And Catholics were the ones responsible just as they are now. It is not the job of the Diocese of Rome to publish German Bibles.”
Catholics hardly have a good record of bible distribution. Repression? Yes. Distribution? No. And it speaks volumes that the Catholic Church opposed translation into the vernacular and widespread distribution of God’s Word. It took the heretics Luther and Tyndale to do that...
Remember. 100,000 copies from one printer alone.
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“You can cite 19 editions (and no, they were not in the vernacular by and large,”
They were ALL in the vernacular.
” nor good translations at all).”
How good is your German? I freely admit some were better than others. But if they were not good in the first place then they probably wouldn’t have been printed or sold and then reprinted a dozen times in some cases. Think.
“I’ll cite 100,000 copies in a translation that has lasted 500 years...”
It’s been revised - many times. The KJV was revised as well.
“Amazing what a heretic can do, while the Catholic Church could not - because it cared not.”
Catholics did it. It is not the responsibility of the Diocese of Rome to publish German Bibles. The Germans did it. They still do. And heretics have succeeded before and will continue to do so on this earth. Satan is the prince of this world. Heretics will always have some success. Satan lauded Luther’s efforts according to Luther’s own words.
“Catholics hardly have a good record of bible distribution.”
Actually they have an excellent one. 19 editions - and those are just the printed ones - before Luther.
“Repression? Yes. Distribution? No.”
Again, 19 editions in Germany alone from 1450s to the 1520. Reprinted numerous times.
“And it speaks volumes that the Catholic Church opposed translation into the vernacular and widespread distribution of God’s Word.”
It didn’t. Yet another baseless assertion from you with no evidence whatsoever. Typical.
“It took the heretics Luther and Tyndale to do that...”
Nope. It was already done. 19 editions in Germany alone before Luther.
“Remember. 100,000 copies from one printer alone.”
Yep. A whopping average of 2,500 copies a year. The grand total from all printers is very impressive. State supported heresy can do that. The real issue should be truth. Was Luther really promoting truth when he altered Romans? No, not really.