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A serious accident in and the death of a friend a little later began to affect Martin's religious development. Then, on July 2,while Luther was returning to Erfurt after visiting home, he was caught in a severe thunderstorm. He fell to the ground in terror, and he suddenly vowed that he would become a monk if he survived. This episode, as important in Christian history as the equally famous and parallel scene of Saint Paul 's conversion, changed the course of Luther's life.

Two weeks later, against the opposition of his father and to the dismay of his friends, Luther entered the Reformed Congregation of the Eremetical Order of Saint Augustine at Erfurt. Luther took his vows in and was ordained a priest in Upon ordination, a nervous Luther conducted his first mass, a worship service at which communion is taken.

In attendance at the service was Hans Luther, who was still angered by his son's choice of vocation. Martin felt he was unworthy to be a messenger of Christ, but he explained to his father that he had to enter the monastery because of his experience in the thunderstorm. Martin was determined to prove himself to his father, and he dedicated himself to the rigorous life of a monk.

His supervisor, Johann von Staupitz —recognized that Martin was academically brilliant, Staupitz urged him to become a teacher. Having reconciled with his father, Martin was selected for advanced theological philosophy of religion study at the University of Erfurt, which had connections with his monastery. In Luther was sent to the University of Wittenberg founded in to lecture in arts.

Like a modern graduate student, he was also preparing for his doctorate degree in theology while he taught. He lectured on the standard medieval texts, such as the Book of Sentences by the Italian religious scholar Peter Lombard c. Luther also read for the first time the works of Saint Augustine a. On October 19,Luther received his doctorate in theology.

After completion of his degree came the second significant turn in Luther's career: he was appointed to succeed Staupitz as professor of theology at Wittenberg. Luther was to teach throughout the rest of his life. Whatever fame and notoriety his later writings and statements were to bring him, Luther's true work was teaching, a duty he fulfilled diligently until his death.

Bydue to the efforts of Luther and his colleague Philip Melanchthon —Wittenberg was to become the most popular university in Germany. Inhowever, it lacked the prestige of Erfurt and Leipzig and was insignificant in the eyes of the greatest of the old universities, the University of Paris. Wittenberg was not the place for an academic who aspired to a prominent career, but Luther was dedicated to being a teacher, not to being financially successful.

His rapid rise came from his native ability, his boundless energy, and his dedication to the religious life. Luther had a good relationship with the Duke of Saxony, also known as Frederick the Wise —who gave his full financial support while he attended the university. This relationship led to Luther becoming one of the most prestigious professors at Wittenberg, even before publishing his works on grace a divine virtue given by God and beginning the infamous indulgence controversy.

Luther had been exposed to two competing philosophical systems during his education: scholasticism and nominalism. Scholasticism was derived from the philosophies of the Italian religious scholar Saint Thomas Aquinas —who had in turn borrowed ideas from the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle — b. The main concept of scholasticism was that rigorous formal logic thinking based on reason should be used in all philosophical and theological inquiries.

Any question could be answered by studying and thinking about it in a logical, organized way. Nominalism, on the other hand, was derived from the philosophies of the English scholastic William of Ockham c. Those who followed nominalism maintained that God was infinitely remote, or removed, from humans, and that the human intellect could not understand the majesty of God.

Luther believed both of these philosophies held merit. Luther dedicated himself to his studies, but he remained continuously afraid of God's wrath and power. While at the monastery he began to experience new religious crises that were based upon his acute awareness of the need for spiritual perfection and his equally strong conviction of his own human frailty.

These kyndell nunley biographies of martin luther caused him almost to despair before the overwhelming majesty and wrath of God. Nevertheless, Luther was a productive writer and he published his lectures on Peter Lombard in He went on to publish his lectures on the Bible: the Psalms —15Saint Paul 's Epistle Letter to the Romans —16and the epistles to the Galatians and Hebrews — During these years, his biblical studies became more and more important to him.

Besides teaching and study, however, Luther had other duties. Beginning in he preached in the parish church and served as regent member of the governing board of the monastery school. In he became the supervisor of eleven other monasteries. Overwhelmed by his duties, Luther worried about the state of his soul. Luther's crisis of conscience centered upon his fears of imperfection.

He wondered how his personal efforts could begin to satisfy a wrathful God. These fears were intensified in when he began to closely study the works of Saint Paul. Luther began to despair while attempting to interpret the passage in Saint Paul's Epistle to the Romans, which says that the justice of God is revealed in the Gospels four books in the New Testament that tell the story of Christ and his teachings.

How can mankind satisfy this angry God, he asked himself. Soon he felt he had found the answer in Saint Paul's text. Luther claimed that God had to punish humanity because people were inherently sinful, yet because God was righteous he gave the gift of faith to those who would take it. Only faith in God's mercy, according to Luther, could save man.

Good works became less important to him than faith. Luther used the term "works" to refer to both church liturgy and the more general sense of "doing good. The idea that faith was more important than deeds was not new. An estimated forty-three other theologians, including Staupitz and Saint Augustine, had come to conclusions similar to Luther's.

What was new, however, was Luther's relationship with God: unlike traditional Christians, he no longer found himself afraid of God, whom he believed to be a loving deity. These new beliefs, which Luther formulated between andcaused him to ask new theological questions, as well as to challenge certain elements of church life. The most famous of these is the controversy over indulgences pardons for sins.

In a great effort to dispense indulgences was proclaimed throughout Germany. In spite of reservations about this practice, indulgences were believed to be a way to escape punishment in the afterlife. This belief was held not only in Germany, but also across Catholic Europe. As Luther became more and more convinced that indulgences were a threat to true faith, his comments about the issue brought him into direct conflict with the pope.

Indulgences began as gifts of money given to the clergy in appreciation or gratitude for forgiveness. Soon, however, indulgences began to represent an outward showing of grief for sins. People would pay for indulgences to prove to the church and others that they were truly repentant for their sins. The medieval church distinguished between guilt and punishment for a sin: a person could atone for guilt through Jesus Christ, but penance, or penalties, for sins could be ordered by a priest.

Indulgences, therefore, could be used to reduce the penalties for sin. In the thirteenth century, the Catholic Church formulated what was called the "treasury of merits," which was a spiritual bank of sorts that "contained" the good works performed by Jesus Christ, the saints, and all pious Christians. In other words, because Jesus and the saints had lived better lives than necessary to get into heaven, their good deeds had been left on Earth in the treasury of merits.

Good deeds from this treasury could be redistributed in the form of indulgences. One would give money to his or her clergyman, who would in turn make a "withdrawal" from the spiritual bank. This system was supposed to reduce the punishments one suffered in purgatory the place where believers feel the dead go to atone for their sins before either going to heaven or being cast into hellbut many did not understand it.

Some thought they could buy their way out of hell and into heaven. By the fifteenth century many had begun purchasing indulgences for family members who were already dead. It was widely believed that people could sin as much as possible and still buy their way into heaven. In Pope Leo X —; reigned —21 announced his intentions to commission the building of a basilica, or church, over the supposed grave of Saint Peter in Rome.

The church is now known as Saint Peter's Basilica. Leo sanctioned the sale of indulgences to raise money for the construction. That same year, an experienced indulgence salesman, a Dominican friar named Johan Tetzel —arrived in a town not far from Wittenberg to begin raising money for the construction. Luther wrote a letter of protest to his archbishop, Albrecht von Bradenburg.

Initially, Luther's protest fell on deaf ears, for the archbishop was sharing the profits of indulgence sales with the pope. Luther attached his Ninety-Five Theses, or propositions for debate, to the letter. He questioned the value of indulgence sales and reprimanded the church for its financial exploitation of Germany. Peter with his own money rather than with the money of poor believers.

Academic debates about theological questions were commonplace at Wittenberg, and had someone not translated Luther's theses from Latin into German they might have gone unnoticed. The translation made them accessible to theologians, scholars, and anyone else who could read German. Soon the theses gained worldwide attention. Most modern scholars agree that Luther never intended to begin a worldwide reform movement within the Catholic Church.

He merely wanted to spark academic debate about a serious issue. He had condensed his Ninety-Five Theses down to "Twenty-Eight Theses on Indulgences" and was excited about engaging in academic debate on the importance of salvation through faith. Luther wanted to put forth the idea that the Scriptures the text of the Bible are the sole authority for Christianity.

He was warmly received by his fellow Augustine monks, who openly gave their support with cheers. Many of those in attendance would later become the first generation of Luther's followers. Luther quickly became a German folk hero, spearheading the campaign to end religious corruption. Meanwhile, back at the Vatican, Pope Leo X —notorious for hobbies such as hunting and traveling that kept him away from his papal duties—realized that Luther's condemnation of indulgences represented a threat to the church's source of income.

Leo, who was the son of the influential Italian banker Lorenzo de' Medici see "Florence" in Chapter 2intended to stop Luther from making more noise about the issue. He ordered a meeting for August 7, Luther asked his prince and supporter, Frederick the Wise, for guidance. Having already sought council from his own advisor, Frederick did not believe Luther to be a heretic and allowed him to stay at Wittenberg.

As one of the seven electors of the Holy Roman Emperor electors were German princes entitled to vote for an Emperor and a leading Christian, Frederick put pressure on the Vatican for the hearing to be on German soil. Although nervous about the meeting, Luther was also excited to meet such a revered theologian. Luther was well versed in the writings of Thomas Aquinas, on which Cajetan was a leading expert.

Luther hoped the two would be able to discuss Aquinas, which would serve as a launching point to dialogue about the new opinions of Luther. Upon meeting at the palace of the Fuggers a wealthy banking familythe two men took an instant disliking to one another. While Luther looked for debate, Cajetan wanted Luther to submit to the authority of the church.

Luther refused, and the two parted on bad terms. Hearing that he was to be arrested, Luther fled from Augsburg to the safety of Nuremberg. After a while, Luther returned to Wittenberg, where Frederick the Wise allowed him to continue teaching. Frederick hoped that the controversy would go away, and Luther agreed to stop writing or speaking publicly about his opinions on indulgences.

Neither of them could foresee the controversy that was about to be unleashed. In Luther agreed to a debate with the theologian Johann Eck — to be held at the University of Leipzig. Eck was a professor at the University of Ingolstadt and an extremely skilled debater. Eck realized he could earn celebrity and win favor with Rome by dismantling Luther's theological positions.

A staunch supporter of the church, he was determined to defend the sacred institution. The debate, held in early July, was originally scheduled to take place between Eck and Luther's colleague Andreas von Karlstadt — When Eck quickly demolished all of Karlstadt's arguments, it was Luther's turn to join the debate. Eck outwitted Luther by challenging his positions, claiming they were similar to those of Jan Hus.

Hus was a priest from Bohemia now Czechoslovakia who had been excommunicated from, or kicked out of, the church and executed in by the Council of Constancea committee of Catholic officials meeting in the town of Constance, Switzerland see "Bohemia" in Chapter 4. One of his crimes was criticizing the practice of selling indulgences. Hus angered many church leaders and state officials, who often split the money raised from indulgences.

After Hus was executed he became a national hero and his followers went on to stage the Hussite Revolt — He is now considered one of the forefathers of the Protestant Reformation. Luther was pushed into a corner, and he was forced to declare that the Council of Constance had been wrong in its condemnation of Hus. The University of Leipzig had been founded by student and faculty refugees who had fled from Prague during the height of the Hussite Revolt, and Luther's position proved unpopular with the audience.

Luther refused to accept any reading of the. Luther's prince and supporter, Frederick the Wise, was one of seven electors responsible for choosing a new emperor after the death of Maximilian I —; ruled — on January 12, Charles was a member of the house of Habsburg, a family of rulers based in Austria and in Spain. Charles had inherited the throne of Spain from his grandparents, Isabella of Castile and Ferdinand of Aragon, and had also inherited his rule over the Low Countries present-day Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg.

Many politicians, the pope among them, felt that the naming of Charles to the throne would give too much power to the house of Habsburg. The same was true of Francis I of France, who belonged to the house of Valois. If made ruler of the Holy Roman Empirethe Frenchman would have a kingdom as large as that of Charlemagne, a ninth-century Frankish king who ruled much of Europe.

Pope Leo was extremely worried about the election of a Habsburg or a Valois because each house controlled an Italian city-state that was close to Rome. Charles was king of Naples, and Francis ruled Milan, so either man would be ideally positioned to overtake the papacy. The pope asked Frederick the Wise to name himself as a candidate.

Leo was certain that Frederick, a Saxon who was fiercely devoted to the church, was no threat to the papacy. Trying to be even more persuasive, Leo promised that if Frederick should be elected, he could chose any person he wanted to be made an archbishop. Leo was assuming that Frederick would choose Martin Luther for the post. Had Frederick chosen Luther, two problems could have been solved for Leo: he would have an emperor who did not want papal territory, and the condemnations of the church would stop; he assumed that if Luther were given a high-ranking position within the church, he would hesitate to publicly criticize the institution.

Frederick was uninterested in the job, however, and he politely declined. Charles promised to respect the traditions of Germany, and he appointed only Germans to imperial offices. Scripture that was decided by a council. Luther's later movement, which grew out of this position, essentially ended the practice of convening church councils, known as conciliarism.

Luther lost the debate by an overwhelming margin. Luther's statements had been extremely dangerous, and he opened himself up to charges of heresy. Eck immediately began to capitalize on his victory, writing the Exsurge Domine Arise Lordthe document that the pope later used as a basis for excommunicating Luther from the Church. For years Luther was tormented by doubts about his ability to meet the demands of a righteous God.

Ina few months before his death, he wrote about this problem in a preface to an edition of his Latin works. He noted that after the disastrous debate in Leipzig inhe studied the Psalms a book in the Bible and felt the joyful assurance that God did not demand righteousness from human beings. Instead, humans were made righteous by God's gift of Jesus Christ, a gift that was to be accepted by faith.

Earlier Luther had taught that Christians who feared death were guilty of insufficient belief. He asked how one could be a Christian and doubt that God could raise the dead. Afterhowever, Luther taught that horror before death was a kyndell nunley biography of martin luther part of the human condition because death was a penalty for sin.

According to Luther, a Christian could be terrified of death and yet trust God's graciousness despite this doubt and uncertainty. In Luther realized that he was intensely at odds with the church, but he felt it was his duty to defend his views and protect his growing group of supporters. He wrote powerful assaults on the papacy. In his An den christlichen Adel deutscher Nation Appeal to the Christian Nobility of the German Nationhe asked the princes to take the duty of church reform over from the pope.

He said that there was a "universal priesthood of all believers," who had a direct relationship with God. Those who were baptized in the faith were of equal standing with priests and had every right to address concerns about the state of their religion. He further argued that the clergy should be allowed to marry, a belief that shook Christendom to its foundations.

In De captivitat Babylonica ecclesiae Babylonian captivity of the churchhe rejected the Catholic sacraments, or holy rites, of confirmation, marriage, ordination, and extreme unction the act of anointing a person with oil before death. He claimed they had no scriptural basis and were merely conspiracies to keep Christians trapped within control of the church.

He redefined penance to be a mutual assurance of divine forgiveness between Christians, and he argued for keeping only the traditional rites of baptism the ceremony in which a person is blessed as a Christian and communion. At this time, there was considerable controversy among reformers about communion. Many debated whether there was a real presence of the body and blood of Christ in the bread and wine that was partaken during the ritual.

Luther believed that the body and blood of Christ were combined with the substance of the bread and wine known as consubstantiationinstead of the wine and bread being transformed into the actual body and blood known as transubstantiation. In Von der Freiheit eines Christenmenschen The freedom of the ChristianLuther held that the true Christian did good works not because of heavenly reward, but out of spontaneous gratitude to God for salvation.

In Pope Leo issued Exsurge domine, the bull decree written by Eck. The bull threatened Luther with excommunication if he did not recant his writings. On January 3,the pope issued another bull, titled Decet Romanum Pontifecem It is fitting that the popeand Luther was officially excommunicated from the church. Charles knew that the pope had objected to his election, and he wanted to gain favor with the church.

On the other hand, Charles did not want to offend Frederick the Wise, Luther's supporter, or any other German prince. The emperor needed their help in his war against France see " Italian Wars dominate Renaissance" Chapter 2. Wanting to gain as much German favor as possible, Charles agreed to Frederick's request that Luther be given a hearing at the Imperial Diet of Worms.

Luther arrived in Worms and began studying with Jewish scholars to improve his Hebrew. He was working on a translation of the Old Testamentand he found that translating a Hebrew kyndell nunley biography of martin luther directly to German would be more accurate than using a Greek translation as his master source. Luther was a firm believer in using original sources, a major theme of Renaissance humanism.

When Luther presented himself before the council at Worms at 4 P. What he encountered was not what he had expected. Luther was led to a room in which his collected writings were piled on a table. He was ordered to renounce them. He asked for time to consider, then left the room. He returned the next day to appear before Charles V. Luther gave this response to the council's command to renounce his views: "Unless I am proved wrong by the testimony of Scripture or by evident reason I am bound in conscience and held fast to the Word of God.

Therefore I cannot and will not retract anything, for it is neither safe nor salutary to act against one's conscience. God help me. One of Luther's students described his teacher at this period: "He was a man of middle stature, with a voice which combined sharpness and softness: it was soft in tone, sharp in the enunciation of syllables, words, and sentences.

He spoke neither too quickly nor too slowly, but at an even pace, without hesitation, and very clearly… If even the fiercest enemies of the Gospel had been among his hearers, they would have confessed from the force of what they heard, that they had witnessed, not a man, but a spirit. Charles was unmoved by Luther's statements, seeing them as a threat to the stability of the church.

Nevertheless, Charles waited to condemn Luther publicly until after he had secured enough financial support to continue his military campaigns against the French and the Ottomans. Charles had been advised that Luther was extremely popular with the German masses, as well as with scholars throughout Europe, so he knew he had to bide his time.

Finally, after receiving assurances from his allies, Charles issued an edict on May 26,that declared Luther to be an outlaw. Reformation Lutheranism. Prolegomena Soteriology. Ordination history. Diaconal ordination. Priestly ordination. Christianity Start of the Reformation Reformation Protestantism. Doctrine and theology. Bible Old Testament New Testament.

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Problems playing this file? See media help. Autograph of " Vater unser im Himmelreich ", with the only notes extant in Luther's handwriting. Sacramentarian controversy and the Marburg Colloquy. Epistemology of faith and reason. Further information: Protestantism and Islam. Bigamy of Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse: — Anti-Jewish polemics and antisemitism: — Main article: Martin Luther and antisemitism.

See also: Christianity and antisemitism. Final years, illness and death. No one can understand Virgil 's Bucolics unless he has been a shepherd for five years. No one can understand Virgil's Georgicsunless he has been a farmer for five years. No one can understand Cicero's Letters or so I teachunless he has busied himself in the affairs of some prominent state for twenty years.

Know that no one can have indulged in the Holy Writers sufficiently, unless he has governed churches for a hundred years with the prophets, such as Elijah and ElishaJohn the BaptistChrist and the apostles. Martin Luther's Death Houseconsidered the site of Luther's death since However the building where Luther actually died at Markt 56, now the site of Hotel Graf von Mansfeld was torn down in Casts of Luther's face and hands at his death, in the Market Church in Halle [ ].

Schlosskirche in Wittenberg, where Luther posted his Ninety-five Thesesis also his gravesite. Luther's tombstone beneath the pulpit in the Castle Church in Wittenberg. Posthumous influence within Nazism. Swan weather vane, Round Lutheran ChurchAmsterdam. Luther and the swan are toward the top on the right. Main article: Martin Luther bibliography.

Luther usually called them " meine Propositiones " my propositions. Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. Hendrix, Scott H. Martin Luther: Visionary Reformer. Yale University Press. ISBN Retrieved 12 November For example: "Thus formerly, when I was a monk, I used to hope that I would be able to pacify my conscience with the fastings, the prayingand the vigils with which I used to afflict my body in a way to excite pity.

But the more I sweat, the less quiet and peace I felt; for the true light had been removed from my eyes. Jaroslav Jan Pelikan, Hilton C. Oswald, and Helmut T. Lehmann, vol. Saint Louis: Concordia Publishing House, Retrieved 29 March Plass, What Luther Says3 vols. Louis: CPH,88, no. Concerning the Ministrytr. Conrad Bergendoff, in Bergendoff, Conrad ed.

Luther's Works. Philadelphia: Fortress Press,ff. The Encyclopedia of Christianity. Eerdmans; Brill, —, New York: Penguin, New York: Penguin,p. Paul, MN. Also see Hillerbrand, Hans. The Cambridge Companion to Luther. Cambridge University Press, InLuther wrote that Jesus Christ was born a Jew which discouraged mistreatment of the Jews and advocated their conversion by proving that the Old Testament could be shown to speak of Jesus Christ.

However, as the Reformation grew, Luther began to lose hope in large-scale Jewish conversion to Christianity, and in the years his health deteriorated he grew more acerbic toward the Jews, writing against them with the kind of venom he had already unleashed on the Anabaptists, Zwingliand the pope. Eerdmans Pub. According to "Luther and the Jews".

Archived from the original on 4 November Retrieved 21 March Archived from the original PDF on 28 September Retrieved 17 May Rose, Paul Lawrence. Johnson, Paul. Poliakov, Leon. Berenbaum, Michael. The World Must Know. Martin Luther. Viking Penguin,p. James L. Schaaf, Philadelphia: Fortress Press, —93, —5. Viking Penguin,pp. Schaaf, Philadelphia: Fortress Press, —93, Fortress Press.

Retrieved 14 May Luther and His Times. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, Church History. JSTOR New York: Penguin,40— Luther The Reformer. Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress Publishing House, New York: Penguin,44— Schaaf, Philadelphia: Fortress Press, —93, — New York: Cambridge University Press,88— Retrieved 13 July Archived from the original on 15 June Albert offered seven thousand ducats for the seven deadly sins.

They compromised on ten thousand, presumably not for the Ten Commandments". Bainton, Roland. These "Anti-theses" were a reply to Luther's Ninety-five Theses and were drawn up by Tetzel's friend and former professor, Konrad Wimpina. Quisquis ergo dicit, non citius posse animam volare, quam in fundo cistae denarius possit tinnire, errat.

In: D. Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. Uitgeverij Bert Bakker, LutherFrankfurt Hunter Publishing, Inc. Retrieved 7 February The Renaissance and Reformation MovementsSt. Reformation — Concordia Seminary, St. Archived from the original on 19 August Retrieved 28 March Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation.

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New York: Oxford University Press, Oswald and Helmut T. Lehmann edsVol. Johnauthor of Revelationhad been exiled on the island of Patmos. Dickens cites as an example of Luther's "liberal" phraseology: "Therefore I declare that neither pope nor bishop nor any other person has the right to impose a syllable of law upon a Christian man without his own consent".

Pelikan, Hilton C. Oswald, Luther's Works55 vols. Louis and Philadelphia: Concordia Pub. House and Fortress Press, —50— Christian Classics Ethereal Library. Retrieved 17 May ; Bainton, Mentor edition, Committed to the idea that salvation could be reached through faith and by divine grace only, Luther vigorously objected to the corrupt practice of selling indulgences.

Popular legend has it that on October 31, Luther defiantly nailed a copy of his 95 Theses to the door of the Wittenberg Castle church. The reality was probably not so dramatic; Luther more likely hung the document on the door of the church matter-of-factly to announce the ensuing academic discussion around it that he was organizing. The 95 Theses, which would later become the foundation of the Protestant Reformation, were written in a remarkably humble and academic tone, questioning rather than accusing.

The overall thrust of the document was nonetheless quite provocative. The other 93 theses, a number of them directly criticizing the practice of indulgences, supported these first two. Why does not the pope, whose wealth today is greater than the wealth of the richest Crassus, build the basilica of St. Peter with his own money rather than with the money of poor believers?

The 95 Theses were quickly distributed throughout Germany and then made their way to Rome. InLuther was summoned to Augsburg, a city in southern Germany, to defend his opinions before an imperial diet assembly. A debate lasting three days between Luther and Cardinal Thomas Cajetan produced no agreement. God help me. I can do no other.

The physical pain and emotional strain of being a fugitive might have been reflected in his writings. Some works contained strident and offensive language against several segments of society, particularly Jews and, to a lesser degree, Muslims. Luther died following a stroke on February 18,at the age of 62 during a trip to his hometown of Eisleben.

He was buried in All Saints' Church in Wittenberg, the city he had helped turn into an intellectual center.

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