True Invention: That is, of the inventions which have been invented by the German nation

but it was propagated to his following successors up to the present day. However, in order to maintain such absurd and false opinions, they also know how to misuse the Holy Divine Scripture for this purpose, and wherever they can find even the slightest color of evidence for their opinion, even if it is completely unfounded, forced, and pulled in by the hair a German idiom meaning highly contrived or far-fetched.

Then, too, the two swords cited by them for this purpose, which the Apostle Peter displayed, and the fabricated Donation of the Emperor Constantine the Donatio Constantini, a forged decree purportedly transferring authority over Rome to the Pope cannot provide any proof, as these are directly countered by the bright example and life of the LORD Christ, as well as his Apostles, and are refuted by the witness of both deed and doctrine. Since this has been dealt with sufficiently in other places, we want to leave it at that here and conclude only that whoever wants to defend the claim that the Roman Pope gave authority over the Roman Empire to Emperor Carolus Magnus Charlemagne acts against all reason, experience, and the course of history and fairness itself, indeed, even against GOD the Almighty, the sole dispenser and author of all governments, who