Martin LutherAngel to the Fifth or Sardis Church Age 1520-1752

Jewish authorities are well aware of the two phases of Luther's ministry: that wherein he wrote his "Jesus Christ was Born A Jew," filled with sympathy for their long unbelief which he laid on the unsympathetic attitude of the Roman Catholic church. Luther's study of the TALMUD became the dividing line. His second and last phase was one of warning against the self-styled Jews as of Christianity and of Christians. After Luther became conversant with the TALMUD and the ritual cursings of Judaism, he declared that a person who condones such blasphemies partakes of them.



"I had made up my mind to write no more either about the Jews or against them. But since I learned that these miserable and accursed people do not cease to lure to themselves even us, that is, the Christians, I have published this little book, so that I might be found among those who opposed such poisonous activities of the Jews who warned the Christians to be on their guard against them. I would not have believed that a Christian could be duped by the Jews into taking their exile and wretchedness upon himself. However, the devil is the god of the world, and wherever God's Word is absent he has an easy task, not only with the weak but also with the strong. May God help us. Amen."