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500 years of God’s word in common language

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500 years of God's word in common language

It’s hard for us to imagine a time when the Bible wasn’t widely and inexpensively available in one’s own language. As such, we need to stretch our imagination to fully comprehend what a ground-breaking, culture-changing feat it was when Martin Luther produced a new translation of the Bible into everyday German.
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