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Protestants should at least concede a point which Martin Luther, their religion’s founder, also conceded, namely, that the Catholic Church safeguarded and identified the Bible: "We are obliged to yield many things to the Catholics – (for example), that they possess the Word of God, which we received from them; otherwise, we should have known nothing at all about it." (21)

Obviously Martin Luther changed his mind when he got a little more educated about it...

Obviously Martin Luther changed his mind when he got a little more educated about it...

Actually, while this quote is one of many often invoked by RCs (who likely do not know the context of them, nor do it, and so i just looked this one up myself) to support their premise that being the instruments and stewards of Holy Writ (which they contend Rome is) means that they alone are its infallible interpreters (while competing with the Orthodox and others.

However, this quote is actually part of a polemic by Luther who responds Scripturally by reminding us that the Jews, who are explicitly stated to be the instruments and stewards of Divine revelation, were not the assuredly infallible interpreters of it, nor was their office perpetual, though God promised not to utterly forsake the seed of David (Ps. 89:28-37) but were replaced by men who were rejected by those who legitimately sat in the seat of Moses. And which principle Luther applies to the Reformation. I myself have answered on this without ever having read Luther here, and which i believe the Lord showed me, who can raise up from stones children to Abraham, (Mt. 3:9) and stones to continue to build His church of the living God. (1Pt. 2:4,5

See the blog of James Swan here on this, and also here on many other often-used quote by Luther, or which are purported to be such

Thanks be to God for His mercy and grace in Christ