What is the actual quote from, the Iconic, Luther?
“What is the actual quote from, the Iconic, Luther?”
About angels dancing on the head of a pin? That’s not from Luther - actually no one knows where the quote came from. It is not medieval in origin or at least no one can find any evidence of it. Chillingworth, an Anglican divine from the 16th or 17th century was the first person to publish that quote but he offered no citation.
If you mean some other quote, I have no idea which one you’re referring to.
I own, and others doubtless do the same, that there is not now such earnestness in the Gospel as formerly under the monks and priests when so many foundations were made, when there was so much building and no one was so poor as not to be able to give. But now there is not a town willing to support a preacher, there is nothing but plundering and thieving among the people and no one can prevent it. Whence comes this shameful plague? (Grisar, Luther, Vol. 6, p.54)