October 16, 1520: The Wild Boar

Luther: In Real Time

Ligonier Ministries

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, History

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🗓️ 16 October 2020

⏱️ 8 minutes

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In the eyes of Pope Leo X, Martin Luther is a boar running wild in his vineyard, and this pest needs to be hunted down. Today, Leo turns to Luther's patron, Frederick, to help him take the rebel captive.

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0:00.0	It's October the 16th, 1520.
0:05.0	Nearly a week has passed since Martin Luther received an official letter from the Pope, denouncing Luther and his teaching and giving him 60 days to recant.
0:14.8	The Pope had written,
0:16.0	Arise, O Lord.
0:18.8	And judge thy cause.
0:21.3	A wild boar has invaded thy vineyard.
0:25.0	Arise, O Peter, as he reads the letter again,
0:27.0	Luther knows who the wild boar is supposed to be,
0:30.0	and he knows what it will mean if he doesn't recant, condemnation and excommunication,
0:37.0	and then execution and as far as the church is concerned, the fires of hell. The Pope's letter lists 41 places in
0:46.4	Luther's writings that the Pope deems to be heretical, scandalous, offensive to pious ears.
0:55.0	Our pastoral office can no longer tolerate the pestiferous virus.
1:02.0	The Pope's reference to Luthera's a wild boar is no accidental turn of phrase. Four months earlier, Pope Leo had completed a draft of the letter while he was at his hunting lodge, preparing to hunt wild boar.
1:19.0	It had previously been reported that the Pope was dismissive of Luther.
1:24.8	This Luther is a drunken German.
1:28.8	He will feel different when he is sober.
1:36.0	But by the fall of 1520, Luther has shown no sign of sobering up.
1:42.0	His thinking has only become more developed, his writing more
1:45.8	pointed in its criticism of the Pope. Pope Leo decides he has no choice. He calls for the destruction of all Luther's writings.
1:55.7	His books are piled up in the piazza Navona in Rome and set a blaze. Even Desiderius Erasmus, the great philosopher and scholar who is loyal to the Pope feels
2:10.3	the wording of the Papal Bull is too much.
2:13.0	The inclemency of this Papal bull ill comports with the moderation of the Pope.
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