“One man claims to possess a feather from the wings of the angel Gabriel, and the Bishop of Mainz has a flame from Moses’s burning bush. And how does it come to pass that eighteen apostles are buried in Germany when Christ chose only twelve?”[108] His opposition to relics influenced his approach to supernatural claims more generally. Luther did not oppose all revelations in principle (especially in visions and dreams), but severely tested all such claims in view of his antipathy to the proliferation of medieval revelations purporting to stem not from Christ but from Mary, the saints, and the
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