chief and his gang bears the name of the Church." This upset Leo X and he issued an ultimatum to Luther to present himself in Rome within 15 days or be excommunicated. Luther again appealed to the government and wrote a pamphlet, An Open Letter to the Christian Nobility of the German Nation Concerning the Reformation of the Christian Estate. In it he made many revolutionary points like; there is no difference between a clergy and an ordinary man, the pope had no right to be the only one to interpret the Scripture and that the Scripture is the final authority.
             Erasmus was once asked of Luther's chief fault. He had wittily replied, " Two. He attacked the pope in his crown and the monks in their bellies."
             In an attempt to stem the tide of revolt, Charles V summoned an
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