Definitions
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- noun the deportation of the Jews to Babylonia by Nebuchadnezzar in 586 BC
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Anabaptists and Carlstadt that polygamy was lawful, and by Luther's assertion in the _Babylonian Captivity_ that it was preferable to divorce, [Sidenote: 1526] he begged to be allowed to take more wives, but was at first refused.
The Age of the Reformation Preserved Smith 1910
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London, wrote Wolsey from Worms of the devotion of the Germans to their leader, and sent to him _The Babylonian Captivity_ with the comment,
The Age of the Reformation Preserved Smith 1910
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On The Babylonian Captivity, written in Latin and directed at priests, was even more challenging.
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