Erasmus gave us the first pure Greek New Testament and Luther used it to translate it into a German translation, that shook Europe to its roots.
That German translation is still the best selling Bible in German!
I guess the Germans can still tell a live Bible from a dead one.
Amen!
"Erasmus gave us the first pure Greek New Testament..."
Yup, and he got it from us Orthodox, which is why the basic text (leaving aside a few translational eccentricities here and there) of those older translations based on Erasmus's Textus Receptus such as the Luther Bible and the KJV are very close to the NT texts used in the Orthodox Church, whereas those modern translations based on critical editions have significant differences, especially in the Gospels.