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Apparently, Luther DID try to remove what you call the NT Deuterocannonicals, and he was wrong. Thankfully, his own followers wouldn't let him (admittedly according to Wiki). This is another example of the Spirit working through the laity rather than the hierarchs (Luther being a de facto hierarch). So, on this point Luther (one man) was wrong and was overruled by the laity. That's how I think God works.

I would say that Melanchthon was just as much the "heirarchy" as Luther, and it was he who enabled you to retain more of the Scriptures than you would have had otherwise had "pope" Luther got his way.

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9,953 posted on 02/10/2007 8:34:43 AM PST by jo kus (Humility is present when one debases oneself without being obliged to do so- St.Chrysostom; Phil 2:8)

I would say that Melanchthon was just as much the "hierarchy" as Luther, and it was he who enabled you to retain more of the Scriptures than you would have had otherwise had "pope" Luther got his way.

Nah. Melanchthon thought of Luther as his "spiritual father". But it doesn't matter. I don't thank Melanchthon and I don't thank Luther either, on this subject. The Spirit determined what the scriptures would be. Not any man or group of men.