C F W Walther on Polemics

"Luther's polemical writings make the one who already believes the truths he defends with all his heart rejoice, they strengthen the weak in faith, they make the hitherto doubtful certain, they give full light to the hitherto ignorant of the matter and to the one who out of weakness is caught in error, and they crush the willfully resisting opponent of truth."

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