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the Evangelists and Apostles... Perchance this version
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The first work published by Olavus Petri under his
own name was his "Answer to an Unchristian Missive"
(Swar vppå jtt ochristelighit sendebreff), dated March,
1527. This is his most polemical work. The occasion
for it was given by a mendacious letter to the Danish
earl marshal Tyge Krabbe, written by Paul Heliæ,
a Danish Carmelite friar, who at first was well disposed
toward Luther but later turned traitor to the
Reformation cause. This letter, widely circulated in Sweden,
made an attack on Luther so utterly unfair and
malevolent that Olavus Petri felt in duty bound to defend
his beloved teacher. His defensory writing gives
evidence of intimate acquaintance not only with the most
recent works of Luther but with the writings of his
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