First Lecture

GA 117a/1910-01-03/p009 ·1910-01-03 · English HighHigh alignmentThis translation's paragraph count matches the German original — the locus maps cleanly to the same paragraph in DE.
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On the surface, we could pose a historical question: Did the people of the first centuries of Christianity have the Gospels in their hands, did they really study them? The answer is: the Gospels were not read or studied as widely as they have been in the last few centuries, not even in the Middle Ages. It was only with the invention of printing that it became possible for everyone to read the words of the Gospel.

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