Sixthly, they ought to be deprived of the opportunity to practice usury, and all their cash and treasure of silver and gold should be taken from them and put aside for safekeeping.
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"A man should not lie with his wife before she has been three nights in bed."
"Reason is the Devil's greatest whore; by nature and manner of being she is a noxious whore, a stinking whore, she is and must be a mischievous whore."
"Whoever enters into marriage, enters a cloister full of struggles."
"Fifthly, passport and traveling privileges should be absolutely forbidden to the Jews. For they have no business in the countryside, since they are not farmers or craftsmen or merchants, but only usur…"
"A woman is to be from home only when she is going to church or to the garden."
German theologian whose 95 Theses (1517) launched the Protestant Reformation and broke the Catholic Church's monopoly on Western Christianity. Closely associated with Philipp Melanchthon (Lutheran systematizer) and John Calvin (later Reformer who built on Luther's break). For an intellectual contrast, see Pope Leo X, Renaissance pope (1513-1521) — Leo X's indulgence sales triggered Luther's break and Leo excommunicated him in 1521 — Luther's entire Reformation is structured as a direct answer to the indulgence-funded Vatican Leo represented.
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The speaker calls for Jews to be banned from lending money at interest and for all their money, silver, and gold to be confiscated and held in custody by authorities. It treats an entire religious group as a financial threat and demands the state strip them of wealth and livelihood, framing theft and economic exclusion as a legitimate policy response rather than persecution.
Luther, the German monk who sparked the Protestant Reformation in 1517, wrote this in his 1543 tract On the Jews and Their Lies after decades of failing to convert Jews to his reformed Christianity. Once hopeful of Jewish conversion, he turned bitterly hostile, and his seven-point program of expropriation, synagogue burning, and forced labor became a dark stain on his theological legacy, later cited by Nazi propagandists.
In 1540s Germany, Jews were legally barred from most trades and pushed into moneylending, which Christian doctrine forbade, then resented for practicing. Reformation Europe mixed religious fervor with economic scapegoating, and princes routinely expelled Jewish communities and seized their assets. Luther's pamphlet fed a centuries-old tradition of blaming Jews for Christian financial dependence and gave theological cover to confiscation policies already common across Saxony and the Holy Roman Empire.
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