# Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1894_S30
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30 Proceedings of the fifteenth convention

is, than that no one may judge the pope), that he alone shall have power to interpret Scripture and to explain the faith, so that his wickedness might not once be revealed, through the revelation of his abominations, if another also wanted to interpret the faith and Scripture."

Further the same Luther writes (VII, 543): "Hence he lets this madness escape at times in his canon law and says: The lower seat may not judge the highest. To this belongs the chapter: Cuncta per mundum novit ecclesia, quod de sententia Romanae ecclesiae non liceat judicare, that is: The whole Church in all the world knows well that one may not judge a verdict that has been rendered and decided by the Roman Church. . . . Is that not to be called an unheard-of audacity, that one single godless man, and one so unchristian, who is laden with all vices, besides the most unlearned and greatest fool, dares presume so highly that no one shall judge him, that he alone cannot err, and that he shall judge all others? Just this they wanted, that they should teach us this most accursed blasphemy, that the pope is above a council, that he alone may interpret Scripture, that one should give more weight to his judgment than to the judgment of the whole Christian community or Church."

Again Luther writes (VII, 544): "Since now the king of gestures, and prudent in proposals, does all things according to his own mind and lets nothing go by the judgment and verdict of Scripture, it must necessarily follow that St. Paul said and wrote 1 Cor. 14 to no purpose and in vain: 'But if a revelation is made to another who sits by, let the first be silent.' . . . But how does the pope behave here? He says: No revelation is made to another who sits by, but I am the first: I shall and will speak alone. The others must all listen to me. Further he says: The others shall not judge; but I will prophesy, and the others must all be judged by me. We by the grace of God are the master, the prophet and vicar of God, ours is the power to speak, as it stands written in the 12th Psalm."

On Gen. 12:4 Luther writes (II, 21): "Against this (that one must obey God more than men) he says: I am the head and lord of the Churches, and it stands written: He who hears you hears me. So that the pope wants also to be a lord over the Word and to bind and loose everything according to his pleasure, that is, to prescribe and command laws."

Further Luther writes (XIII, 692): "But what shall he (the Holy Spirit) do? He shall teach and remind of all things. Here our learned men have