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God in heaven.

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Oh my god.

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Be still.

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I'm frightened.

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God,

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this is sacrilege!

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Stop, I tell you!

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This is the house of God!

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It seemed so clear to me when it first
began.

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The Roman Catholic Church had ceased to be
the guardian of faith for Europe's masses,

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and in the eyes of many, became their
oppressor.

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Driven to desperation by plague and
famine, bands of peasants rose up against

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the Church's tyranny.

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In their acts of rebellion, I was certain
I saw the hand of God.

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And so I, Wilhelm Reublin, left the
priesthood.

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I believed that with the peasants'
backing, the corrupted Church could be

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overthrown, replaced by a true Church,
not just reformed, but restored to the

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principles of Scripture.

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I began my quest while Michael Sattler
still collected taxes as prior of St.

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Peter's Monastery.

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It's Hoffman again.

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Our lordship believes we have become lax
in the collection of our taxes and rent.

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I have taxed and double-taxed.

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There simply isn't more to take.

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I know that.

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He doesn't.

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Perhaps if I received Lord Hoffman myself?

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A cup I'd be happy to pass.

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Take care, Michael.

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He's a jealous master.

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Your Grace?

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Any news from the East, Lord Hoffman?

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All bad.

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Nothing between us and the damned infidels
but Vienna.

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Everything is dead or enslaved.

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Yes, we hear terrible stories.

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Not half so terrible as the truth.

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Cut off the bastards' arms and they fight
on, a scourge surely from Satan.

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It's a hard winter.

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That should help.

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What would help is gold.

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We can defeat the Turks prior if we're
given the means to do it.

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Taxes.

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It always comes down to that, doesn't it?

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Enemies within, enemies without.

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We're mindful of the enemies within.

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As for the enemies without...

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God willing, this will help.

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How much?

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Forty-seven guilders.

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Less with every pass.

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Plague and famine have taken their toll.

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They have so little left.

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Prior if the Turks sack Vienna,
there will be nothing.

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Still, we do our subjects little favor to
save them from the Turks' swords so we can

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crush them with our taxes.

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There must be guilders left to collect.

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You can't wring blood from a turnip.

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Then you take what the turnip has.

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And this, are they complete?

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I go by baptisms.

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I've heard that these radicals,
these Anabaptists, they refuse to baptize

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their children.

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Better than us to worry about their necks.

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Better your collection book.

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Every time a child goes unbaptized,
a name goes missing from the list.

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Hundreds of names, hundreds of children.

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We should be concerned.

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For the protection of their souls?

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If we don't stop the Turks, Prior,
there will be no souls to protect.

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It was the day of the Antichrist.

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Satan was loosed on the earth.

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We all believe that.

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But what face did he wear?

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Some said the infidel Turks.

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Others said the reformers, Martin Luther
and Ulrich Zwingli.

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Some, the Pope.

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And still others said it was those of us
who came to be known as the Anabaptists.

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Is it your intention that this child
receive the blessings promised by our

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Lord?

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It is.

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A child of Christ, an enemy of Satan?

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Amen.

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Then I declare this babe prepared to
receive baptism.

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Although Zurich had broken away from the
Catholic Church, its congregation still

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maintained many Roman practices,
such as the Mass and infant baptism.

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Andrew Reitzman, I welcome you into the
Church of the people.

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I welcome you to a church freed from the
tyranny of Catholic rule, to follow Christ

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without interference from Popes or
Bishops.

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I baptize you, Andrew Reitzman,
in the name of the Father and of the Son

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and of the Holy Spirit.

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I welcome you to church.

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Into the arms of hell!

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This is no baptism!

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How dare you?

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I speak on authority of the Scriptures.

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To baptize an infant means no more than to
water a cat.

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It remains a sacrament.

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A sacrament of Satan, the Pope's lie.

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Leave my church.

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Behold, the Pope's puppet.

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Guards, get the guards.

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Listen to reason.

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To follow Christ, one must choose to
believe.

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A child cannot choose.

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My church shall not become the stage for
your debate.

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It's not my debate, brother.

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I ask, did Christ ever baptize a child or
his disciples?

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Did he?

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Blasphemy!

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This sacrament is the Pope's lie.

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I don't know how you can do this.

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Do not baptize the infant.

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Infant baptism is a sacrament.

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Do not baptize the infant.

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The Swiss canton of Zurich, presided over
by the pastor and politician Ulrich

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Zwingli.

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A close ally we believed would help
complete the restoration of the church.

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You barge in and disrupt a perfectly
peaceful service.

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In the name of what?

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Conscience?

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In the name of Christ.

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So you claim the Pope's authority.

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I thought we'd agreed that a man must be
free to follow his own conscience.

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So long as conscience is guided by
scripture, not the city council.

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Change can only happen when people are
ready for it.

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Foolhardy acts will only bring about a
resistance to change.

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George, we can listen, Ulrich,
if you have a better way.

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Opinions are divided on infant baptism.

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Disagreements will be heartfelt,
I'm sure.

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You have spoken against the baptism of
infants.

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When you were a priest, did you not
baptize infants?

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Until I saw the error of my ways.

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Ah, so we're agreed that men of goodwill
may change their mind.

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Baptism is a matter that should be decided
by church leaders, not merchants.

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I have in mind a public dispute centered
on this issue of infant baptism,

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open to everyone.

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We can all discuss whether a child
baptized is a child saved or merely wet.

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And who will judge the dispute?

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The council?

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The council elected by its citizens.

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If you move the people of Zurich,
the council will listen.

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If not...

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You must abide by its judgment.

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One Altman Weber.

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In the year of our Lord, 1524,
no payment.

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In the year of our Lord, 1523,
half payment.

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We extended your credit on the promise
that you could settle these accounts,

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my lord.

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My lord, the people can't afford to buy
food.

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They have no money to pay for my printing.

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Yes.

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Confiscate his press.

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What?

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No!

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No, no, no, please!

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No, no, Prior, please!

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Stop!

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How can I pay if I have no hope for an
income?

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And how can the church survive if its
citizens refuse to bear their

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responsibilities?

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There must be some other way.

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Perhaps.

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Take his livestock instead.

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Prior!

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Prior!

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And the chickens.

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No!

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The church should feed its flock,
not fleece it.

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We have no money.

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How are we to eat?

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Margareta.

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Yes, sister.

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Can you come?

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Right now.

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Please.

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Yes.

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Of course.

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Sister.

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Margareta.

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The baby is dead, Margareta.

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My baby is hungry.

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No wonder he cannot speak.

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Oh, my God.

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How long?

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Since yesterday, she won't get enough...

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Milk.

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That's all he needs.

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I want to run away and help.

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Listen, Ursuline.

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You've done all you can.

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No!

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All he needs is milk.

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Here, help me, sister.

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Here,

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give me your hand.

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Yes, help.

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Oh, no.

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It is morning, Friar.

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It is indeed.

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Wouldn't be needing a meal, would you?

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No, thank you.

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We've broken fast.

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Broke hell out if by the looks of you.

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Morning, sister.

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Morning.

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Do you speak?

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No.

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No?

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No.

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I saw a child starved to death last night.

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His mother had gone mad.

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And now, do you see that man over there?

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The printer?

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He starves himself to feed his son.

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I know.

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You know and you just stand there?

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It is the law.

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Why doesn't the law touch the tax
collector?

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Can you tell me that?

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When it's lacking, they should flog him.

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Margarita.

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The law.

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I will speak to the abbot.

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Try his concubine.

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It'll do you better.

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That's enough.

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Oh.

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Oh, Michael, you may be holy, but I can't
believe how blind you are.

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What would you have me do?

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Do...

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Why don't you bring me a chicken for that
gruel I serve?

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I'd have to steal it.

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Well, I wouldn't complain.

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You'd lose your soul over a chicken.

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No, but you would, apparently.

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Margarita, I...

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Excuse me, Prior.

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I have work to do.

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An adequate feast for our guests,
wouldn't you agree, Prior?

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Yes, Your Grace.

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And deserving the large contribution in
return?

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Without doubt.

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But we do need to...

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Well, is it you want it?

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The Beguines, Your Grace.

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They exhaust their resources to feed the
hungry that come.

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Dreadful situation.

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We give them all we can.

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It is past their stomachs, I'm afraid.

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They're growing complaints about the
church.

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Very good.

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Beggars always have and always will blame
others about their plight.

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It is more than the idle chatter of
beggars.

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Some of the sisters fear that unless we
lower taxes and rents, grumbling may turn

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into full-scale revolt.

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Beguines gossip must not extend to matters
of faith, Michael.

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That cannot be tolerated.

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Of course not.

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Have you seen this?

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No.

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Gutenberg's folly has been used as a tool
of sedition.

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They print these by the hundreds.

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Anyone who can read becomes a theologian.

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Where do they come from?

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South, we think.

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Here, Zurich.

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The work of radicals.

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People call them Anabaptists.

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They promote heresy.

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You shall know the truth, and the truth
shall set you free.

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It's scripture.

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Without interpretation.

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It incites rebellion.

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We must keep our ears to the ground.

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I hope I hear well enough to know the
church's enemies.

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The infidel Turks Archduke Ferdinand
fights.

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That enemy can be heard by the simplest
novice.

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But the enemy that threatens order from
within, that takes a keener ear.

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The enemy's prior.

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We must keep an ear to the ground.

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We speak of reform.

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We speak of leading the Pope's ways for
those of scripture.

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Yet look at us.

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Where Rome once taxed our congregations,
we now have a council, which demands our

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tithes.

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Where monasteries once assigned us
priests, we now have pastors, appointed by

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a secular council.

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Our church still tolerates graven images.

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And finally, we have this question of
baptism.

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You say, now, that because Christ neither
taught for nor against the baptism of

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infants, that the Old Testament is
decisive.

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That the covenant God's people once held
by circumcision is now sealed through the

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hope of baptism performed on infants.

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I say, lie!

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The baptism of infants was a lie when the
Pope called for it.

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The scriptures have not changed.

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Baptism must be a choice made of free
will.

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Such a choice is not possible for infants.

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If this council continues their baptism,
it does not damn the babe.

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It damns the church!

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A delicate matter, this business of
baptism.

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An extremely delicate matter.

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Still, how much harm can come from
abandoning the practice of watering

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babies?

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We depend on the grain we've received from
the canton still controlled by Rome.

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More change and we'll be cut off.

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That logic is absurd.

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If our concern is to appease Rome,
we should not have broken away in the

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first place.

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Do you think for one moment that if we
decide in their favor, it will stop there?

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He's right, Jacob.

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There's more here than a child's baptism.

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These radicals threaten our ability to
govern Zurich.

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I have a son in their ranks.

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His beliefs are strong, but hardly
treasonous.

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Urik, these people we now call radicals
have been your students.

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We have known them as friends.

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Comrades, in our break with Rome,
there must be some compromise.

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Faith is a fragile thing.

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It's not enough to be against Rome.

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Zurich must remain united as one people.

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A fortress whose foundation is the baptism
of all its citizens at birth.

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Only then can we stand united against our
enemies.

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So, the disputation has been decided.

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They will not accept it.

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They will insist on further debate.

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The debate is fine, but there must be an
end to debate.

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A church, a city without discipline,
inspires chaos.

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Divide and conquer, the Romans used to
say.

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And the Roman Pope says it still.

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The council has prepared its ruling on the
issue of infant baptism.

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The Zurich canton, in every respect,
upholds the arguments and positions

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articulated by Pastor Ulrich Zwingli.

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The council also serves its authority to
enforce the results of this dispute.

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Any parent with unbaptized children,
after seven days of this ruling,

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will lose the rights of citizenship and
will be banished from the canton of

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Zurich.

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Felix Manz and Conrad Grebel, as citizens,
are ordered, on pain of imprisonment,

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to refrain from any further discussion of
the matter which has been judged in this

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dispute.

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Do not worry.

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I will continue my protest.

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The council also embraces the right to
declare judgment on those who are not

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citizens of the canton of Zurich.

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Wilhelm Reutemann, George Blaurock,
Johannes Brotli, Andreas Kasselberger and

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Ludwig Ketzer have eight days to leave all
territories within this council's

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jurisdiction.

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I say our hope is north.

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In the countryside, the peasants have
begun to revolt against their lords.

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God's word is meant to incite faith,
not swordplay.

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Zurich, we have to continue here.

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The peasants need leaders.

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The peasants need to hear Christ's
teachings, not battle cries.

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Besides, we've been silenced.

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Truth cannot be silenced.

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Zurich is our home.

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Not my home.

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We can begin somewhere else.

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With the peasants' support, we can build a
new church.

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A true church cannot be built on violence.

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I say we stay in Zurich, whatever the
cost.

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North.

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The peasants.

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There is our hope.

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Baptize me.

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Baptize me.

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Baptize you?

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Brother, I cannot.

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Yes, you can, and you must.

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Why?

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We've been ordered to submit the
unbaptized for baptism, am I right?

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Yes, of course.

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By rejecting the baptism of infants,
am I not rejecting my own?

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If we defy the council, we will be
imprisoned.

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Not imprisoned.

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Freed.

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George is right.

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Better a prison of stone than a prison of
false conviction.

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Baptize me, brother.

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Re-baptism is a crime.

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Oh, not re-baptism.

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But a first true baptism.

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Brother George.

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Do you...

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Are you sorry for your past sins?

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Oh, that's a lot to be sorry for.

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That is.

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And I am.

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By accepting the sign of baptism,
is it your choice to now proclaim your

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faith before God, and in the presence of
these witnesses?

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It is.

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God, help me be strong.

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Then I baptize you.

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George Blaurell.

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In the name of God, Christ Jesus,
and the Holy Spirit.

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Give me your hand, brother.

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Brother George, as Christ was raised from
the dead by the glory of God, so walk from

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this day forth in newness of life.

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And so, we came to be known as the
Anabaptists, those who re-baptize.

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To those who ruled Europe, who viewed
infant baptism as a mark of citizenship,

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we had committed the ultimate act of
treason.

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Those who believed him, Jesus said,
if you follow my teaching, you are really

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my disciples, then you shall know the
truth, and the truth shall set you free.

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Shall know the truth, and the truth will
set you free.

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Oh Lord, free,

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free.

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Free.

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Yes?

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Friar, Sister Margaret asks for you.

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At this time of the night?

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Something about a printer and Lord
Hoffman.

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Hoffman, get my horse.

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You can't do this!

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What are you doing?

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Let me go!

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Please, let him go!

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No!

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Thomas!

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Thomas!

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Thomas!

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The printer!

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The printer!

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The printer!

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It's too late to get help.

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Just hold him.

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Hoffman!

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You are on land under the administration
of my monastery.

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Precisely.

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I should not have to do your work.

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But he...

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What has he done?

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Your printer has been very busy.

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You shall know the truth.

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Anabaptist.

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Did you know about this?

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I know the track, not the source.

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It's a statement of faith!

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I am treason!

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What the man did, he was driven to by
hunger.

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The man is a traitor!

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And a heretic!

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By whose order?

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Whose authority?

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I have been guilty of envy.

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Yes.

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More than once, Prior.

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I have been guilty of sloth.

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Gone.

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And unclean thoughts.

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For man or woman?

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For woman, Prior.

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A particular woman.

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Which woman?

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She... she comes through the door in the
kitchen.

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Fine.

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A dozen of fathers in a week of scrubbing
pots.

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But Prior...

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The kitchen.

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I may see her again.

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We conquer our doubts by facing them,
not by secluding ourselves away from...

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away from them.

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But Prior...

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Now go.

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And sin no more.

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Good morning.

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You startled me.

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I'm sorry.

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Where were you?

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I guess I was hiding.

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Why?

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Is something wrong?

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Oh...

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Here.

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Let me help you.

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Thank you.

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Well?

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Well...

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I've done a lot of thinking lately.

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You think too much.

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About the church.

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As always.

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It's been difficult for us, hasn't it?

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It's always been difficult for monks and
women.

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Natural enemies.

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I don't want it to be that way.

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Well, that's a comforting thought.

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I have something to tell you, Margaret.

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I'd be surprised if you didn't.

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I'm leaving.

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Leaving what?

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The monastery.

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The church.

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The church!

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Oh, my God!

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I thought a long time about this.

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You only told me that those walls of St.
Peter's were very safe.

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You said that I never even had to look
outside if I didn't want to.

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Well...

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I never wanted to.

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But lately...

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I can't look anywhere else.

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Leaving the walls is one thing,
but...

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leaving the church, that's quite another.

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I would never force your conscience,
Margaret.

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It's not mine I'm thinking of,
Michael.

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You'll be a mocked man.

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You cannot stay in Austrian territory.

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I know, I...

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I just had to...

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I had to see you before I left to say...

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to tell you...

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to say...

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Farewell.

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You have no mercy.

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Perhaps if you'd ask for mercy...

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I don't even know where I'll go,
I just...

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I just know...

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that I have to seek the peace that eluded
me in the monastery.

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I still can't offer title.

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I can't even offer security or comfort.

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But I can...

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offer...

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would...

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offer you my...

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my hand in marriage.

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You...

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are...

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asking me...

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to come with you.

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We felt something for each other once
before...

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you entered the paginage and I the
monastery.

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I had...

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hoped...

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to you.

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Can you still feel something for me?

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The steepest price...

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that I have had to pay the church...

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was not being able...

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to express my feelings.

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It's for you.

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If you go with me...

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you may pay a steeper price for your
affection.

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Yes.

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You ready to...

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to risk all to go with me?

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Yes.

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Margarita.

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I bless you in the name of the Father...

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and of the Son...

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and of the Holy Spirit.

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I still don't know where we'll go.

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No matter.

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Whither thou goest...

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I will go.

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Thy people...

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shall be my people.

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And thy God...

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my God.

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Freedom!

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That is the promise of God's word in
scripture.

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Listen to the ring of that word.

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It was at a rural church on the outskirts
of Zurich...

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that I first met Michael and his new wife,
Margarita.

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Freedom!

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Freedom from the tyranny of Rome!

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Freedom from lords and masters!

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Do you know either of those two?

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Not from here, brother.

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Freedom to hunt game on the land of the
nobility!

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You ask for divine justice!

38:15.980 --> 38:19.120
Brothers and sisters, freedom from
oppression...

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begins with freedom in Christ.

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And freedom in Christ begins...

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with a sign that you are ready to fight.

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You are ready to follow Christ.

38:34.300 --> 38:35.800
The sign...

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of voluntary adult baptism.

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All who are ready to follow that sign...

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come forward and gather around me.

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No!

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For baptism!

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I cannot, woman.

39:22.850 --> 39:24.210
How can you condemn his soul?

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Water is only a sign it cannot save.

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Your child's soul is protected by its
innocent state.

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You... you can baptize.

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No longer I hold no office.

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What of your oath?

39:44.240 --> 39:46.740
My oaths were of man, not God.

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Can you... can you also assure me...

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that my baby's soul will not be lost?

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No, I cannot.

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Bastard!

39:58.380 --> 39:58.740
Enough!

39:59.500 --> 40:00.180
Catch him!

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All of you!

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Catch him!

40:18.200 --> 40:19.980
I see a man of God.

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You see an uncertain man.

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These forests give refuge to a good many
uncertain men and women.

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You've come to be rebaptized.

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We've traveled a good way.

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We have questions.

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I am Wilhelm Reublen.

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I will give what answers I can.

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We thought when Zwingli broke with Rome...

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that it was only a matter of time.

40:46.120 --> 40:48.400
But Zwingli showed he had no more heart
than Luther...

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to complete the task he started.

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So now that task falls to us.

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Task?

40:53.280 --> 40:54.480
Completing the Reformation.

40:54.860 --> 40:57.600
Restoring the church to the purity of its
early days.

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It's a grand idea.

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How do you intend to accomplish it?

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The peasants.

41:03.280 --> 41:05.580
They're beginning to look to the
Anabaptists for leadership.

41:06.360 --> 41:07.840
Luther has turned his back on them.

41:08.420 --> 41:10.020
Rome has its hands full with the Turks.

41:10.200 --> 41:12.680
When the peasants overthrow the lords...

41:12.680 --> 41:14.880
we will have the foundation for our
church.

41:15.060 --> 41:17.560
They may find their pitchforks and
clubs...

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no match against steel and gunpowder.

41:21.500 --> 41:22.540
They, Michael...

41:22.700 --> 41:26.260
we have numbers and right on our side.

41:30.740 --> 41:33.300
Still, it seems...

41:34.220 --> 41:34.840
revolt...

41:34.840 --> 41:36.860
is a poor way to recreate a church...

41:36.860 --> 41:39.120
founded on suffering and love.

41:40.240 --> 41:42.500
A small accommodation to make...

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for a church based on the word.

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There's a place for you, Michael.

41:47.080 --> 41:49.440
We need clear-thinking men, literate men.

41:49.580 --> 41:50.120
Think of it!

41:50.120 --> 41:52.920
A chance to be independent, free.

41:54.340 --> 41:54.980
Yes.

41:55.620 --> 41:56.900
The idea certainly has appeal.

41:58.240 --> 42:00.140
Although I've always thought of freedom...

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as an internal state.

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Not an external one.

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You, my friend, have been in the monastery
too long.

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Give it some thought.

42:25.600 --> 42:27.240
I'll be preaching again tonight.

42:28.340 --> 42:29.820
Perhaps I should stop by for you.

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You have a good man in there.

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Yes, I do.

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And he a good woman.

42:50.390 --> 42:51.490
I'm glad you approve.

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But you... you, I take it, do not approve
of me.

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I don't know enough about you.

43:02.810 --> 43:03.710
Ask away.

43:06.430 --> 43:07.610
Are you married?

43:08.430 --> 43:08.910
Oh, yes.

43:10.510 --> 43:11.170
Children?

43:11.750 --> 43:12.030
One.

43:12.630 --> 43:14.830
A beautiful little girl, Mary.

43:15.410 --> 43:16.410
Why aren't they with you?

43:18.230 --> 43:21.890
I am not a particularly safe man with whom
to travel.

43:22.610 --> 43:24.190
My husband needs peace.

43:25.690 --> 43:27.150
He needs time.

43:27.930 --> 43:31.390
He does not need to be pushed into your
dangerous schemes.

43:33.010 --> 43:35.070
I know I push too hard.

43:35.870 --> 43:38.070
But it's only because I believe so deeply.

43:38.890 --> 43:41.730
Because I have worked so long and so hard.

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And because now, finally, I am so close.

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To what?

43:57.170 --> 43:58.070
All right.

43:59.370 --> 44:00.050
Finished.

44:02.670 --> 44:04.730
It's well worth four guilders,
I'd say.

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More like three, when you add the border.

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I would start tonight, but Wilhelm is due.

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Will he come along?

44:22.830 --> 44:24.470
Do you think he would mind?

44:24.730 --> 44:25.030
Wilhelm?

44:28.770 --> 44:30.150
It's a different sword.

44:30.910 --> 44:32.010
A dangerous sword.

44:32.810 --> 44:33.530
A sign of faith?

44:33.530 --> 44:34.310
Or ambition?

44:34.830 --> 44:39.210
He's likely to find that those who draw
the sword die by the sword.

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The sword.

44:41.190 --> 44:44.110
And I do not want you by his side when he
finds that out.

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Don't worry.

44:46.610 --> 44:48.530
We monks make bad weavers.

44:49.570 --> 44:51.150
But we make worse soldiers.

44:56.750 --> 44:59.550
I suppose Wilhelm doesn't like to be kept
waiting.

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I shall get my cloak.

45:01.170 --> 45:05.610
Thank you.

45:17.170 --> 45:18.210
Michael Sattler?

45:18.870 --> 45:19.850
Yes, what...

45:19.850 --> 45:20.990
Come with us, please.

45:23.290 --> 45:24.610
Where am I to be taken?

45:24.930 --> 45:25.390
Zurich.

45:25.970 --> 45:26.910
Orders of the council.

45:27.570 --> 45:29.830
It will go better if you don't resist.

45:30.130 --> 45:31.290
I have no reason to.

45:31.550 --> 45:32.730
Well, come along then.

45:34.490 --> 45:35.090
Michael!

45:35.790 --> 45:36.390
Margaretta!

45:37.290 --> 45:37.890
Margaretta!

45:38.490 --> 45:39.090
Michael!

45:40.950 --> 45:42.330
Where are you taking him?

45:46.090 --> 45:50.370
I escaped the net which snared Michael and
the Anabaptists Felix Mons, George

45:50.370 --> 45:51.890
Blaurock and Conrad Grebel.

45:52.810 --> 45:55.170
I was no sheep to be taken in the night.

45:58.870 --> 45:59.350
Oh,

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it's devilish cold in here.

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Who are you, my lord?

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No lord, a pastor, Ulrich Swingly.

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Swingly?

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Sit, sit, sit, sit, sit.

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I've brought some warm cider.

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Why am I arrested?

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Allow me to ask who you are.

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Michael Sattler.

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We have indications that you held office
at St. Peter's Monastery in the Black

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Forest.

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I was prior there before I left.

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Prior?

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Yes.

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It's common for monks of lower order to
flee with their treasuries, but a prior?

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I left my treasury as well.

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Tell me, what possessed you to join the
Anabaptists?

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I have joined no group, no.

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Some more cider.

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Please.

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We have information that you kept company
with one of their leaders, William

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Roybloom, who was banished.

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Banished?

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I had no idea he was banished.

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I merely had some questions for which he
seemed anxious to provide answers.

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A man who asks questions, now that I can
understand.

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Tell me what you think of Roybloom's
answers.

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Hmm.

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I have not decided.

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He seems determined to separate God's word
from man's.

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Not always an easy distinction to draw.

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De gustibus non est disputandum.

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Well, I hope Christ's teachings are more
than a matter of taste.

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So do I.

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So, you would agree that some authority is
necessary, especially in spiritual

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matters?

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I believe in spiritual authority,
yes.

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I should know better than to debate a
prior.

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So tell me, what is your opinion on this
issue of rebaptism?

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I know that in the 13th century,
Rome conducted an inquisition against

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several groups whose members practiced
rebaptism.

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But since this is the 16th, and I have
broken with Rome, I'm uncertain about many

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things.

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A prudent answer.

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What's this?

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A statement that you are not rebaptized,
and do not claim loyalty with those who

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are.

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Does this present any difficulties for
you?

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Certainly not at present.

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I hope not.

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One word of warning.

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Beware of Wilhelm Breivlin.

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He seems determined.

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He's a driven man.

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A dangerous companion for a man with
questions.

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Michael was released the next morning.

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A man with questions was a law of freedom
in those days.

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Not so easy for those with answers.

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Zwingli was beginning to show the same
enthusiasm as Rome for enforcing the rules

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of the church, but the power of the state.

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The council orders that the Anabaptists be
placed in prison on bread and water for as

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long as is needed for the prisoners to
recognize the authority of this duly

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elected council that affairs both secular
and spiritual.

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It's happening here, too.

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Oh, no.

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Men sit in prison, and I... I ruin cloth.

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It's late.

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What?

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Michael, come to bed.

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One bad thread.

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I've wasted a week's work.

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I must... must have mixed a dye wrong.

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We've been at it only six months.

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We still have a lot to learn.

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Don't ruin my foul mood with your logic.

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You've ruined enough today.

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Don't you get dye on my gown.

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For a man of conscience, few things are so
terrible as doubt, uncertainty.

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But for every man plagued with doubt,
there was a multitude steeped in

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conviction, thousands ready to do battle
with their Roman oppressors.

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Surely now God was prepared to smite the
corrupt church.

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Help!

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Help!

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Help!

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We must answer it, I suppose.

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Willem, you're...

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There were so many.

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There were only a hundred or so.

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Easy.

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I told them not to leave the trees.

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I'm sure you did.

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It felt like a week before the scythe.

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Yes, it does.

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I thought with the peasants,

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we could take the upper hand.

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We were stronger.

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We could beat them.

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But our church...

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I have the sword.

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We still have hope.

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Yes, in God.

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It's Rosberg.

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Powerful men, the Archduke there can't
touch them.

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They'll help us.

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You're exhausted.

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We'll talk in the morning.

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We need you, Michael.

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In the morning.

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We need you.

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Eat.

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One bad thread.

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Pardon?

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I sewed the board of the single dyed
thread.

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And it took over the bolt.

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So you've learned a lesson.

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No.

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We just keep making the same mistake.

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Over and over.

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Michael, I don't think it's...

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It takes only one bad thread to ruin the
entire fabric, don't you see?

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We weave man's authority into God's and
the church is corrupted.

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But we do have to live in the world.

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In the world, perhaps.

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But not of it.

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Is that possible?

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That's the truth of baptism.

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Leaving the kingdom of the world...

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And joining the kingdom of God.

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Yes.

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When I was a prior, I split my vows
between Christ and the Duke.

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Luther, he divides his loyalty with the
German state.

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Zwingli, his council.

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Wilhelm is right.

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A baptism of choice signals that we break
with the world in matters of faith.

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But Wilhelm had his peasants.

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Yes.

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The sword.

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When we accept its power, we invite its
corruption.

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How can we avoid that?

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By forming a church, separate from the
power of the sword.

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The apostles had no duke.

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No prince.

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And no guarantees.

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What can you say to a woman who wants
safety for her children?

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What guarantee can you offer a man for his
family?

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Faith.

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Only faith.

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As Christ was raised from the dead,
so walk in the newness of life.

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In the name of the Father, the Son,
and the Holy Spirit.

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I baptize you, Peter Eberhard von Zollern.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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For our son's Godfather.

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Thank you, Elsa.

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And well earned, too.

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A toast, then.

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To Peter Eberhard von Zollern.

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How long can you stay with us,
Eberhard?

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I joined Ferdinand in the morning.

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Vienna?

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Yes, I'm sorry.

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Can't be helped.

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I hear they're under siege.

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We'll be lucky if that's all.

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If the Turks break through in Vienna,
we have nothing to stop them.

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Besides, if we keep losing ground to those
Turkish bastards, we'll soon be standing

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on each other's shoulders.

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I understand the land we lose to the Turks
is more than made up in our other

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campaigns.

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Still, there's no point in conceding
anything to a horde of barbarians on

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ponies.

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Be careful, Eberhard.

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Ursula, I'm no fool.

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But the man who is too careful winds up
with his head in his lap.

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I'd rather your head remain exactly where
it is.

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I'm toast to that.

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No man can serve two masters.

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You cannot serve God and Mammon.

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Pastor Sadler.

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Margarete.

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We were expecting you.

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How far?

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An hour or less.

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I'll send Gunther along.

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Thank you.

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Travel quietly, brother.

01:00:00.320 --> 01:00:02.600
Not quietly enough, apparently.

01:00:03.220 --> 01:00:04.280
Where might you be headed?

01:00:04.820 --> 01:00:06.920
Towards Orb, to peddle my wares.

01:00:09.660 --> 01:00:10.680
Not by this path.

01:00:11.080 --> 01:00:11.380
No?

01:00:11.960 --> 01:00:13.120
Bad time to peddle.

01:00:13.480 --> 01:00:14.180
When's it good?

01:00:14.660 --> 01:00:15.160
Bandits.

01:00:15.740 --> 01:00:17.880
We've lost three or four travelers within
a month.

01:00:18.660 --> 01:00:20.220
My business is urgent.

01:00:20.680 --> 01:00:22.380
I can watch out for myself.

01:00:24.900 --> 01:00:26.760
I suppose it could wait.

01:00:26.760 --> 01:00:28.100
That would be best.

01:00:28.780 --> 01:00:31.500
Not every ax in this forest is as blunt as
mine.

01:00:38.630 --> 01:00:41.370
In spite of constant danger, we grew in
number.

01:00:42.270 --> 01:00:47.530
We became a hidden church, forced to meet
secretly in caves, barns, and forest

01:00:47.530 --> 01:00:47.950
glens.

01:00:49.610 --> 01:00:52.130
We have one Lord.

01:00:53.770 --> 01:00:54.910
Christ Jesus.

01:00:57.850 --> 01:00:59.350
And he's all we need.

01:01:01.970 --> 01:01:04.210
But we must take him to ourselves.

01:01:05.270 --> 01:01:05.610
You see?

01:01:06.630 --> 01:01:11.050
We must receive baptism that takes us from
the old and into the new.

01:01:11.990 --> 01:01:16.990
We must stand separate from the rest of
the world in matters of faith.

01:01:17.450 --> 01:01:20.230
But pastor, the scriptures say,
render unto Caesar.

01:01:21.290 --> 01:01:22.210
And so we shall.

01:01:23.130 --> 01:01:27.650
We're obligated to pay the Duke his taxes,
but we must not collect it.

01:01:28.170 --> 01:01:29.970
We must not accept the Duke's protection.

01:01:30.910 --> 01:01:35.050
We must take no oaths of loyalty to any
government.

01:01:37.750 --> 01:01:41.470
We acknowledge no authority over the
church.

01:01:43.030 --> 01:01:44.410
Except God's.

01:01:46.510 --> 01:01:48.910
I could not believe what Michael was
saying.

01:01:49.270 --> 01:01:52.390
A church standing alone, no protection
from city or state.

01:01:52.790 --> 01:01:55.970
A church without sword or service to kings
or dukes.

01:01:58.010 --> 01:02:01.350
It was a view completely uncomplicated by
reality.

01:02:02.330 --> 01:02:04.190
Michael, you are misleading these people.

01:02:04.410 --> 01:02:05.710
That's a serious objection.

01:02:06.250 --> 01:02:07.950
You fill their heads with pipe dreams.

01:02:08.870 --> 01:02:13.010
There has never been a church that lasted
without a king or pope behind it.

01:02:14.450 --> 01:02:15.630
And it will never happen.

01:02:15.930 --> 01:02:18.050
Seems to me we're off to a pretty good
start.

01:02:18.270 --> 01:02:20.750
Only because we are so few in number they
haven't noticed.

01:02:20.750 --> 01:02:26.690
When that moment comes, we will be ground
to dust.

01:02:26.870 --> 01:02:27.950
Where would you build the church?

01:02:28.170 --> 01:02:29.950
Not among privets and pine trees.

01:02:31.490 --> 01:02:32.630
Listen to me, Michael.

01:02:33.310 --> 01:02:33.850
Strasbourg.

01:02:34.410 --> 01:02:35.610
Ah, Strasbourg.

01:02:36.750 --> 01:02:38.590
Martin Busser and Wolfgang Capito.

01:02:39.470 --> 01:02:41.570
The leaders there, they're strong,
educated.

01:02:42.330 --> 01:02:42.750
Wealthy.

01:02:43.590 --> 01:02:44.450
Yes, power.

01:02:45.130 --> 01:02:46.830
It's in the city now, not in the
countryside.

01:02:47.570 --> 01:02:49.170
We need the protection.

01:02:50.430 --> 01:02:51.390
Strasbourg can offer.

01:02:53.690 --> 01:02:54.170
Patronage.

01:02:55.390 --> 01:02:58.130
Otherwise, we will be meeting in barns and
caves forever.

01:02:59.370 --> 01:03:03.150
Not bad locations for a message that began
in a stable.

01:03:03.610 --> 01:03:05.330
Capito and Busser can still be influenced.

01:03:05.790 --> 01:03:06.990
They have kept an open mind.

01:03:07.750 --> 01:03:09.930
Is that why they lock up our brothers and
sisters?

01:03:10.570 --> 01:03:13.350
Who refuse to swear oaths of loyalty to
their city?

01:03:13.530 --> 01:03:14.790
All the more reason to go.

01:03:15.010 --> 01:03:16.170
To petition for their release.

01:03:17.870 --> 01:03:20.090
You're changing baits.

01:03:20.870 --> 01:03:23.910
Michael, like it or not, you are fast
becoming a leader in our church.

01:03:25.070 --> 01:03:29.990
Your presence in Strasbourg can make a
difference to the fate of our brothers in

01:03:29.990 --> 01:03:32.310
prison, to the fate of our church.

01:03:33.050 --> 01:03:34.130
You are needed.

01:03:44.620 --> 01:03:45.180
Strasbourg.

01:03:46.660 --> 01:03:51.220
Under the tolerant leadership of Martin
Busser and Wolfgang Capito, it had come to

01:03:51.220 --> 01:03:52.740
be known as the city of hope.

01:03:53.600 --> 01:03:59.200
For us Anabaptists, I believed Strasbourg
was our last hope for protection and

01:03:59.200 --> 01:03:59.780
patronage.

01:04:03.910 --> 01:04:10.790
A man who has become a citizen of God's
kingdom must separate himself from the

01:04:10.790 --> 01:04:11.530
realms of the world.

01:04:12.070 --> 01:04:14.450
A plague of Turks now lays siege on
Vienna.

01:04:15.190 --> 01:04:16.650
Yellow-skinned, hairless animals.

01:04:16.910 --> 01:04:18.270
Some say they are the Antichrist.

01:04:18.510 --> 01:04:19.490
They may well be.

01:04:19.790 --> 01:04:22.590
The infidel seeks to destroy Christendom.

01:04:23.230 --> 01:04:27.830
What resistance could you offer that would
be consistent with your beliefs?

01:04:27.990 --> 01:04:28.930
I could offer none.

01:04:29.490 --> 01:04:30.450
But they are butchers.

01:04:32.930 --> 01:04:34.510
Christ himself was butchered.

01:04:35.930 --> 01:04:42.990
If our Lord endured persecution for God's
sake, why should we seek to avoid it for

01:04:42.990 --> 01:04:43.370
ourselves?

01:04:43.610 --> 01:04:44.790
This is an extreme case.

01:04:45.890 --> 01:04:51.470
We must simply seek a middle ground
between the use of violence and

01:04:51.470 --> 01:04:52.330
self-preservation.

01:04:52.590 --> 01:04:57.430
Tell me, if we may not slay the Turk
ourselves, may we accept protection if

01:04:57.430 --> 01:04:57.830
it's offered?

01:04:58.250 --> 01:05:02.730
If we accept a prince's force,
we accept his authority.

01:05:03.230 --> 01:05:06.790
Our authority is Christ.

01:05:07.410 --> 01:05:09.770
But Christ used force to scourge the
temple.

01:05:10.450 --> 01:05:11.370
But not with a sword.

01:05:11.590 --> 01:05:13.070
Hear me out.

01:05:14.730 --> 01:05:19.310
A Turk who wields the sword does so out of
ignorance.

01:05:19.410 --> 01:05:24.870
For a Turk is not a Christian and has not
heard the truth.

01:05:25.650 --> 01:05:31.090
But a man, a man who has pledged to
Christ, think of it.

01:05:32.890 --> 01:05:38.170
When he picks up the sword, he mocks the
very faith he claims to follow.

01:05:38.350 --> 01:05:39.450
He defends the faith.

01:05:39.690 --> 01:05:39.770
No!

01:05:42.270 --> 01:05:43.750
I would not fight.

01:05:44.390 --> 01:05:49.870
But if I did, I would rather fight
alongside a genuine Turk than a hypocrite

01:05:49.870 --> 01:05:53.030
Christian who uses the sword in false
service to Christ.

01:06:08.020 --> 01:06:13.180
While more and more Anabaptists refused to
take up the sword, the Turks continued

01:06:13.180 --> 01:06:17.880
their advance across Europe, leaving a
path of destruction in their wake.

01:06:35.760 --> 01:06:43.320
A thousand more foot soldiers than that
woman might be yet alive in her child.

01:06:44.760 --> 01:06:45.960
Yes, your excellency.

01:07:01.650 --> 01:07:06.290
What kind of age is it when men refuse to
find the devil himself?

01:07:06.890 --> 01:07:08.150
Not men, my lord.

01:07:08.590 --> 01:07:09.150
Cowards.

01:07:09.150 --> 01:07:10.030
Heretics.

01:07:10.570 --> 01:07:12.830
And growing everywhere in number.

01:07:15.150 --> 01:07:16.550
Mother of Jesus!

01:07:40.430 --> 01:07:43.230
Too late.

01:07:45.110 --> 01:07:45.550
Father!

01:07:59.190 --> 01:08:00.850
Look on this woman.

01:08:02.770 --> 01:08:03.710
Remember her.

01:08:05.470 --> 01:08:12.390
Anyone who refuses to fight the infidel
deserves a death no easier.

01:08:17.330 --> 01:08:20.410
It was a fearful time for Anabaptists.

01:08:21.170 --> 01:08:26.050
A bad time to reject infant baptism and
oaths that marked civic loyalty.

01:08:28.350 --> 01:08:33.890
We became outlaws, hunted not only in
Catholic territory, but now on Protestant

01:08:33.890 --> 01:08:34.730
land as well.

01:08:35.590 --> 01:08:37.970
George Blaurock was beaten and driven from
Zurich.

01:08:38.930 --> 01:08:42.030
And Swingly gave Felix Manz his third
baptism.

01:08:43.210 --> 01:08:44.190
Death by drowning.

01:08:46.010 --> 01:08:47.250
Then it is finished.

01:08:48.030 --> 01:08:48.330
No.

01:08:49.770 --> 01:08:51.510
Michael, we are outlaws.

01:08:52.250 --> 01:08:55.610
We have no patron, no protection,
no money.

01:08:56.490 --> 01:09:00.790
We are hunted like common thieves in
territories controlled by Rome,

01:09:01.330 --> 01:09:02.890
and now by Zurich as well.

01:09:05.430 --> 01:09:08.870
We have nowhere in all of Europe in which
to turn.

01:09:09.410 --> 01:09:13.610
The strength of the church should be found
within the community of believers,

01:09:14.790 --> 01:09:15.850
not without.

01:09:17.250 --> 01:09:18.550
That's the worst of it.

01:09:19.290 --> 01:09:20.730
Conrad, dead of consumption.

01:09:21.590 --> 01:09:22.790
Now Felix, drowned!

01:09:25.610 --> 01:09:27.690
We have many of our numbers imprisoned.

01:09:28.910 --> 01:09:31.670
Those left in our congregations argue
bitterly.

01:09:32.470 --> 01:09:36.670
If our persecutors do not finish us first,
we will destroy ourselves.

01:09:37.770 --> 01:09:38.450
Wilhelm is right.

01:09:38.650 --> 01:09:40.450
We can't agree on a single point.

01:09:41.150 --> 01:09:43.050
What would you have us do, Wilhelm?

01:09:47.970 --> 01:09:50.510
Perhaps Swingly will allow us a second
disputation.

01:09:54.950 --> 01:09:57.890
It will let him know that we are ready for
compromise.

01:09:58.550 --> 01:10:01.310
Swingly would have us debating from the
river's bottom.

01:10:02.150 --> 01:10:04.090
I like the idea of a disputation.

01:10:05.690 --> 01:10:11.410
A gathering of representatives from each
of our communities to agree on a common

01:10:11.410 --> 01:10:12.090
unity.

01:10:12.930 --> 01:10:14.810
That's an excellent idea, Wilhelm.

01:10:15.030 --> 01:10:15.790
No, Michael.

01:10:16.090 --> 01:10:18.670
With this third baptism of Felix,
we are finished.

01:10:18.770 --> 01:10:20.390
No, we're not finished.

01:10:20.390 --> 01:10:22.150
We have no church.

01:10:22.850 --> 01:10:25.710
Every man must become a priest,
and every woman.

01:10:26.850 --> 01:10:29.570
Every Christian must be his own bishop.

01:10:29.950 --> 01:10:30.290
No!

01:10:32.610 --> 01:10:33.850
Hoffman's men are everywhere.

01:10:34.330 --> 01:10:37.110
If persecution comes, we must face it
together.

01:10:38.010 --> 01:10:39.490
As brothers and sisters.

01:10:40.710 --> 01:10:42.870
Not enough to know that we're Anabaptists.

01:10:42.950 --> 01:10:45.010
We need to know what it is we believe.

01:10:46.870 --> 01:10:50.510
After that, everyone may choose for
themselves.

01:10:51.390 --> 01:10:53.330
We must select a central location.

01:10:53.970 --> 01:10:57.070
Every thief-catcher available has been
hired to look for us.

01:10:57.810 --> 01:11:01.550
If we attempt to travel anywhere in
numbers, we will be easily found.

01:11:02.890 --> 01:11:04.230
We can travel on a holy day.

01:11:04.930 --> 01:11:06.450
The roads will be full of travelers then.

01:11:06.750 --> 01:11:07.070
Wilhelm?

01:11:11.570 --> 01:11:14.850
You've given leadership to our movement
since the beginning.

01:11:16.090 --> 01:11:21.250
Your support is essential if we're to form
a successful union.

01:11:22.410 --> 01:11:23.710
What do you have?

01:11:24.090 --> 01:11:25.530
There's to be a meeting.

01:11:26.130 --> 01:11:27.530
St. Matthias Day.

01:11:28.970 --> 01:11:31.310
Do you know who St. Matthias was,
peddler?

01:11:31.650 --> 01:11:32.390
No, my lord.

01:11:33.750 --> 01:11:38.250
He was the disciple who replaced Judas
Iscariot.

01:11:39.090 --> 01:11:40.470
Is that right, my lord?

01:11:41.690 --> 01:11:42.330
Yes.

01:11:43.310 --> 01:11:45.370
Where will the meeting take place?

01:11:49.370 --> 01:11:50.830
Good morning to you, John.

01:11:52.110 --> 01:11:56.850
Anabaptist leaders came from Switzerland,
Germany, Austria, to the Swiss border town

01:11:56.850 --> 01:11:57.710
of Schleithain.

01:11:58.750 --> 01:12:02.070
The price on our heads was greater than
our church's treasury.

01:12:05.890 --> 01:12:10.750
We were afraid, and I hoped I could use
this fear to make those gathered see

01:12:10.750 --> 01:12:11.130
reason.

01:12:21.890 --> 01:12:25.190
I do not question brother Michael's
sincerity.

01:12:26.030 --> 01:12:29.890
I simply question the wisdom of his
proposal.

01:12:30.070 --> 01:12:30.830
Of a folly!

01:12:38.490 --> 01:12:44.130
Like Michael, I too once sought God in a
cell.

01:12:45.910 --> 01:12:48.910
By separating myself from the outside
world.

01:12:48.910 --> 01:12:55.630
But unlike Michael, I realize the
monastery is a womb we cannot reclaim.

01:13:05.110 --> 01:13:06.990
I ask you.

01:13:08.630 --> 01:13:15.370
How can we survive as believers if we
cannot accept positions of influence?

01:13:15.970 --> 01:13:17.090
And the soul!

01:13:18.370 --> 01:13:22.710
Follow Michael's vision, and we not only
invite destruction by the infidel,

01:13:22.710 --> 01:13:27.590
we invite persecution by those who might
otherwise defend us!

01:13:51.880 --> 01:13:55.320
Many of you know...

01:13:56.100 --> 01:13:57.620
I am a weaver.

01:14:00.300 --> 01:14:07.480
For many years the good Lord protected the
world from my obvious talents as a weaver

01:14:07.480 --> 01:14:09.800
by confining me to a monastery.

01:14:11.420 --> 01:14:15.080
But somehow, somehow I escaped.

01:14:16.080 --> 01:14:18.520
And I managed to spin some cloth.

01:14:19.480 --> 01:14:21.800
And I brought this specimen here today.

01:14:23.100 --> 01:14:23.660
Tell me.

01:14:25.420 --> 01:14:26.740
What would you give me for this?

01:14:26.740 --> 01:14:28.240
A broken barrel!

01:14:28.380 --> 01:14:29.240
Or a dead goat!

01:14:32.120 --> 01:14:33.560
You are sensible people.

01:14:33.860 --> 01:14:35.300
You can see that the cloth is ruined.

01:14:36.380 --> 01:14:38.900
And you wouldn't waste your good earnings
to buy it.

01:14:40.300 --> 01:14:47.140
One of the first things I learned when I
began weaving was that it takes only one

01:14:47.140 --> 01:14:48.800
bad thread.

01:14:49.800 --> 01:14:56.780
Only one poorly mixed dye to destroy an
entire cloth.

01:14:58.540 --> 01:15:02.520
Like my brother Wilhelm, I'm afraid.

01:15:04.640 --> 01:15:06.380
I fear for those in prison.

01:15:07.760 --> 01:15:12.640
I reap for those who have died and will
die as Anabaptists.

01:15:12.640 --> 01:15:18.920
But I fear even more the consequences of
compromise.

01:15:19.860 --> 01:15:26.320
For if we allow the power of this world to
be threaded into the fabric of Christ's

01:15:26.320 --> 01:15:28.440
church, all of us...

01:15:30.700 --> 01:15:33.020
All of us, we've seen the results.

01:15:34.440 --> 01:15:36.100
Compassion turns to pride.

01:15:37.300 --> 01:15:38.740
Charity to greed.

01:15:39.680 --> 01:15:43.440
Truth becomes fabrication, salvation,
citizenship.

01:15:44.980 --> 01:15:46.840
Peace, oppression.

01:15:48.620 --> 01:15:55.800
And faith in God becomes faith in popes
and princes and kings.

01:15:58.580 --> 01:16:05.440
We must not imitate the world but Christ
in all things.

01:16:06.260 --> 01:16:10.280
Even if we are called to the gallows or
the grave.

01:16:11.580 --> 01:16:18.280
When I made this mistake, it cost me only
four guilders.

01:16:22.290 --> 01:16:24.390
If we deceive ourselves now,

01:16:28.230 --> 01:16:29.630
the price will be eternal.

01:16:38.330 --> 01:16:38.990
Hey, wait.

01:16:40.910 --> 01:16:46.290
The following article is that we have
dealt with in which we have been united as

01:16:46.290 --> 01:16:49.490
brothers and sisters in our Lord Jesus
Christ.

01:16:50.630 --> 01:16:57.070
To baptize those who have repented of
their sins and have made an adult and

01:16:57.070 --> 01:16:59.730
voluntary commitment to follow Christ.

01:17:00.590 --> 01:17:03.690
To swear no oaths of any kind.

01:17:04.480 --> 01:17:09.330
To reject the sword as outside the
perfection of Christ.

01:17:10.610 --> 01:17:21.590
And finally, to separate ourselves so that
good and evil, believing and unbelieving,

01:17:22.330 --> 01:17:29.970
darkness and light, the kingdom of God and
the kingdom of this earth.

01:17:34.810 --> 01:17:36.790
None will have part with the other.

01:17:37.610 --> 01:17:40.890
It is not enough that we leave this place
in simple agreement.

01:17:41.510 --> 01:17:45.730
We must go forth fully committed to the
course that we have set here.

01:17:47.470 --> 01:17:49.690
Under the guidance of the Holy Spirit.

01:17:51.770 --> 01:17:56.210
We must go out as sheep amidst wolves.

01:17:58.290 --> 01:18:03.910
As lambs to the slaughter.

01:18:10.550 --> 01:18:11.770
How say you?

01:18:12.350 --> 01:18:12.910
Amen.

01:18:14.210 --> 01:18:15.090
Amen.

01:18:28.320 --> 01:18:29.200
David.

01:18:29.780 --> 01:18:30.100
Ingrid.

01:18:31.060 --> 01:18:33.060
I don't believe any of you have met my
wife.

01:18:33.520 --> 01:18:33.900
Adelaide.

01:18:34.180 --> 01:18:34.900
How do you do?

01:18:34.980 --> 01:18:35.520
How do you do?

01:18:35.560 --> 01:18:36.580
And my daughter, Mary.

01:18:37.000 --> 01:18:37.440
Say hello.

01:18:55.760 --> 01:19:01.740
I had not known so many of our
congregation felt as you.

01:19:03.060 --> 01:19:03.880
How do you feel?

01:19:07.440 --> 01:19:08.960
I believe...

01:19:08.960 --> 01:19:10.880
We have a future, Michael.

01:19:20.570 --> 01:19:22.350
What is that?

01:19:27.410 --> 01:19:28.670
We've been found.

01:19:31.430 --> 01:19:32.430
Quiet, please.

01:19:32.610 --> 01:19:33.810
Quickly, out the back.

01:19:34.530 --> 01:19:36.010
Wilhelm, I can't find Mary.

01:19:52.180 --> 01:19:53.020
Over here.

01:20:08.320 --> 01:20:14.680
Not the comforts of the monastery that you
left, but perhaps better able to give you

01:20:14.680 --> 01:20:16.340
a soul direction.

01:20:18.800 --> 01:20:25.160
Crude tools should not be necessary among
men of refinement.

01:20:26.400 --> 01:20:27.040
Refinement.

01:20:30.100 --> 01:20:33.160
It's one thing to risk your own hand.

01:20:34.700 --> 01:20:36.000
What about the others?

01:20:37.880 --> 01:20:38.920
What about them?

01:20:39.240 --> 01:20:41.680
How can you bear to watch them suffer?

01:20:45.520 --> 01:20:48.020
How can you bear to cause their suffering?

01:20:48.400 --> 01:20:54.060
Michael, I'm not a cruel man by nature,
but I will do whatever is necessary for

01:20:54.060 --> 01:20:54.680
the Empire.

01:20:55.300 --> 01:20:56.500
And the Church.

01:20:56.980 --> 01:21:02.340
And I'm not a brave man, but I have
chosen, along with my brothers and

01:21:02.340 --> 01:21:08.200
sisters, to suffer whatever is necessary
for the sake of truth.

01:21:08.520 --> 01:21:09.000
Truth!

01:21:09.280 --> 01:21:10.680
This is not truth!

01:21:11.800 --> 01:21:12.880
This is heresy!

01:21:13.480 --> 01:21:17.320
I pray that you turn from your ways while
there's still time.

01:21:21.250 --> 01:21:22.730
I'll run you through.

01:21:24.170 --> 01:21:27.190
You and your people, one by one.

01:21:27.950 --> 01:21:29.130
If I have to.

01:21:29.550 --> 01:21:30.350
Think about it.

01:21:31.930 --> 01:21:32.570
Quickly!

01:21:33.450 --> 01:21:35.170
Before time runs out.

01:21:43.070 --> 01:21:44.670
Take him back to his cell.

01:21:58.980 --> 01:22:00.880
Admit to re-baptism.

01:22:01.040 --> 01:22:01.380
Yes.

01:22:01.480 --> 01:22:02.640
You defile the sacraments.

01:22:02.720 --> 01:22:02.740
No.

01:22:02.740 --> 01:22:03.460
The holy relics.

01:22:03.660 --> 01:22:05.180
You deny the authority of the Pope.

01:22:05.460 --> 01:22:07.880
God's word denies his authority.

01:22:07.880 --> 01:22:10.520
You took oaths as a monk, did you not?

01:22:10.840 --> 01:22:11.520
I took vows.

01:22:11.600 --> 01:22:12.020
Of poverty.

01:22:12.520 --> 01:22:12.840
Yes.

01:22:12.900 --> 01:22:13.540
And chastity.

01:22:13.720 --> 01:22:13.960
Yes.

01:22:13.980 --> 01:22:15.500
To the woman you sleep with as a whore!

01:22:23.800 --> 01:22:25.540
Margaretha is my wife.

01:22:25.980 --> 01:22:26.280
Ah.

01:22:27.040 --> 01:22:30.980
So you broke a solemn vow, ignored your
oath to take a wife.

01:22:31.720 --> 01:22:34.120
Oaths and vows are made by men.

01:22:35.960 --> 01:22:37.680
Marriage comes from God.

01:22:48.360 --> 01:22:49.980
My Lord's prosecutor!

01:22:53.160 --> 01:22:57.880
Hartman, if you continue to conduct this
trial as a religious debate, it may be we,

01:22:58.060 --> 01:22:59.500
not our prisoners, who hang.

01:22:59.500 --> 01:23:03.800
Your Grace, I was merely establishing that
religious law was broken in order to lay

01:23:03.800 --> 01:23:05.480
the groundwork for the verdict of death.

01:23:05.580 --> 01:23:08.960
The Archduke has already given his
permission to execute without benefit of

01:23:08.960 --> 01:23:09.320
trial.

01:23:10.340 --> 01:23:13.460
The Anabaptists have strong backing in
this region.

01:23:14.200 --> 01:23:16.960
The verdict we seek must come from the
people.

01:23:17.640 --> 01:23:18.880
Do you understand?

01:23:23.420 --> 01:23:24.380
I understand.

01:23:24.380 --> 01:23:25.220
One minute.

01:23:28.980 --> 01:23:30.980
I am going to order a recess.

01:23:31.380 --> 01:23:35.220
When we return, I suggest you be ready
with charges that are civil in nature,

01:23:35.440 --> 01:23:36.220
not religious.

01:23:37.080 --> 01:23:39.220
Charges that the people understand.

01:23:39.980 --> 01:23:40.700
Yes, Your Grace.

01:23:52.620 --> 01:23:53.180
Margaretha!

01:23:57.020 --> 01:24:00.380
Oh, you feel so good.

01:24:02.460 --> 01:24:03.060
What?

01:24:03.060 --> 01:24:04.380
How did you manage?

01:24:04.720 --> 01:24:07.340
It seems the Countess von Sahlen arranged
it.

01:24:07.940 --> 01:24:09.520
I hope we don't office one with the Count.

01:24:09.780 --> 01:24:10.240
Yes.

01:24:11.940 --> 01:24:14.580
Your arguments increase our support among
the people.

01:24:15.000 --> 01:24:17.080
That may only make the judgment harsher.

01:24:18.260 --> 01:24:19.080
To set an example.

01:24:28.920 --> 01:24:29.580
And you?

01:24:31.540 --> 01:24:32.840
How are you holding up?

01:24:34.520 --> 01:24:35.840
Are the hardships too great?

01:24:38.600 --> 01:24:43.920
Your skill as a weaver prevented me from
becoming unduly dependent on luxury.

01:24:44.620 --> 01:24:46.020
You have no mercy.

01:24:47.240 --> 01:24:50.220
Yes, I do.

01:24:50.500 --> 01:24:51.160
I have mercy.

01:24:51.160 --> 01:24:51.260
Mercy.

01:24:56.440 --> 01:24:58.560
How are the others?

01:25:00.840 --> 01:25:02.520
Some hold fast.

01:25:04.880 --> 01:25:06.340
The others...

01:25:06.780 --> 01:25:08.920
There may well be more recantations.

01:25:09.880 --> 01:25:10.140
More?

01:25:12.300 --> 01:25:13.300
And late.

01:25:14.720 --> 01:25:17.480
She cannot stand to be separated from her
Mary.

01:25:25.560 --> 01:25:26.800
And you, Michael?

01:25:31.020 --> 01:25:32.000
I'm afraid.

01:25:33.220 --> 01:25:34.440
For your life.

01:25:35.300 --> 01:25:36.220
For mine.

01:25:37.140 --> 01:25:39.460
For what we have worked to accomplish.

01:25:40.760 --> 01:25:43.480
The threat of death is nothing new to our
brothers and sisters.

01:25:43.660 --> 01:25:45.040
But now they...

01:25:45.040 --> 01:25:47.920
They watch to see if a martyr's death
is...

01:25:51.000 --> 01:25:51.460
Bearable.

01:25:54.200 --> 01:25:57.180
Our union is so new, so fragile.

01:25:59.920 --> 01:26:01.180
We lose courage.

01:26:02.160 --> 01:26:04.000
Our church may die in its infancy.

01:26:07.740 --> 01:26:11.000
Oh, I thought that only I had doubts.

01:26:12.920 --> 01:26:16.180
I could not take the first steps of this
pilgrimage by myself.

01:26:16.300 --> 01:26:19.300
The final steps seem equally impossible
to...

01:26:20.380 --> 01:26:21.680
To travel alone.

01:26:34.930 --> 01:26:36.910
Michael, you say marriage is of God?

01:26:37.430 --> 01:26:37.790
Yes.

01:26:38.970 --> 01:26:42.390
Were your vows confirmed only between
yourself and God?

01:26:42.710 --> 01:26:43.030
No.

01:26:44.070 --> 01:26:45.470
Also before a minister.

01:26:46.670 --> 01:26:47.950
Under whose jurisdiction?

01:26:48.230 --> 01:26:49.350
The canton of Zurich.

01:26:50.270 --> 01:26:52.050
By an instrument of the devil?

01:26:52.310 --> 01:26:53.790
I have not claimed that.

01:26:54.890 --> 01:26:57.250
You refuse to honor the authority of
government?

01:26:57.710 --> 01:27:01.730
I am bound by scripture to submit to dukes
and princes.

01:27:01.730 --> 01:27:04.890
Ah, so government is ordained of God.

01:27:05.010 --> 01:27:05.330
Yes.

01:27:05.450 --> 01:27:08.390
Yet you refuse to take up the sword in
defense of your land.

01:27:08.730 --> 01:27:14.850
In matters of conscience, Christ's
followers must choose God's laws above

01:27:14.850 --> 01:27:15.570
man's.

01:27:15.690 --> 01:27:19.830
So man may choose by conscience which laws
to obey and which to disregard.

01:27:20.430 --> 01:27:23.110
The state would crumble if it allowed such
freedom.

01:27:23.430 --> 01:27:28.910
Unless Christ's followers claim such
freedom, the church withers.

01:27:28.910 --> 01:27:32.310
Each day, Ferdinand fights the Antichrist
at our throats.

01:27:32.570 --> 01:27:33.490
Do you deny this?

01:27:33.710 --> 01:27:36.910
We do not know that the Turks are the
Antichrist.

01:27:37.430 --> 01:27:38.790
We know that they are Turks.

01:27:39.010 --> 01:27:39.370
Yes?

01:27:40.350 --> 01:27:40.870
Infidels.

01:27:41.310 --> 01:27:42.490
So I have heard.

01:27:42.850 --> 01:27:44.530
Barbarians, completely without Christ.

01:27:44.590 --> 01:27:46.310
I cannot judge that.

01:27:50.350 --> 01:27:56.250
Is it true, it was reported, that you say
you would prefer to fight on the side of

01:27:56.250 --> 01:27:58.070
the Turks against the Christians?

01:27:58.910 --> 01:27:59.490
What?

01:28:02.650 --> 01:28:03.010
Order!

01:28:03.590 --> 01:28:04.870
Let the accused reply.

01:28:05.490 --> 01:28:06.810
Have I spoken your words?

01:28:07.090 --> 01:28:08.110
My meaning was...

01:28:08.110 --> 01:28:09.110
Answer the court!

01:28:09.770 --> 01:28:17.870
I said that if Warring was right,
I would rather take the field against

01:28:17.870 --> 01:28:19.610
so-called Christians.

01:28:19.910 --> 01:28:26.190
If, as you state, Turks know nothing of
the Christian faith, then they are but

01:28:26.190 --> 01:28:27.450
Turks of the flesh.

01:28:29.130 --> 01:28:37.950
But you, you who would be Christians,
yet persecute Christ's followers with a

01:28:37.950 --> 01:28:44.070
sword, you are Turks of the spirit.

01:28:44.510 --> 01:28:45.630
You are a heretic.

01:28:46.050 --> 01:28:47.810
You have seduced pious people.

01:28:48.190 --> 01:28:50.330
It would be better if you had never been
born.

01:28:50.650 --> 01:28:52.890
God knows what is good.

01:28:52.890 --> 01:28:55.810
Desperate villain, I tell you,
if there were no hangmen here,

01:28:55.850 --> 01:28:59.250
I would hang you myself, and know that I
have done God's service.

01:28:59.570 --> 01:29:00.710
God will judge.

01:29:01.010 --> 01:29:04.550
Is there no argument that can convince you
of the error of your ways?

01:29:04.730 --> 01:29:07.150
I can only be convinced by Scripture.

01:29:07.150 --> 01:29:08.350
You are a heretic.

01:29:09.110 --> 01:29:11.090
The hangmen will convince you.

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Eva.

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Your name is Margarella, wife of Michael
Sattler, the condemned man.

01:30:02.880 --> 01:30:04.220
He has not yet been judged.

01:30:08.840 --> 01:30:10.160
Do you know who I am?

01:30:14.840 --> 01:30:19.340
I am the Countess of Hagensee,
wife of the Principal Judge Campanzola.

01:30:19.800 --> 01:30:21.900
Yes, I know who you are.

01:30:22.160 --> 01:30:25.100
More importantly, do you know what I can
offer you?

01:30:26.460 --> 01:30:28.840
If only I could see Michael again,
I would be so grateful to you.

01:30:28.840 --> 01:30:30.240
No, no, that is no longer possible.

01:30:34.540 --> 01:30:39.880
However, if you are a Count, I can offer
you your life.

01:30:40.240 --> 01:30:44.400
I can also offer you protection and
employment in my home.

01:30:44.700 --> 01:30:46.020
Why do you offer me this?

01:30:46.280 --> 01:30:47.720
Because I feel sorry for you.

01:30:48.240 --> 01:30:53.060
I know what it is like to have one's
thoughts and actions dictated by the

01:30:53.060 --> 01:30:54.100
position of one's husband.

01:30:54.980 --> 01:30:58.180
I simply see no reason you should suffer
for your husband's beliefs.

01:30:58.640 --> 01:31:01.300
I do not follow my beliefs because of my
husband.

01:31:02.080 --> 01:31:04.720
I follow my husband because of my beliefs.

01:31:05.140 --> 01:31:12.900
You will not recant, even if, as you must
suspect, your sentence is death?

01:31:13.260 --> 01:31:13.640
No.

01:31:14.200 --> 01:31:18.460
These beliefs of your husband,
your beliefs, you can be that certain of

01:31:18.460 --> 01:31:18.600
them?

01:31:22.700 --> 01:31:23.300
Yes.

01:31:26.260 --> 01:31:28.240
Then I do not feel sorry for you.

01:31:29.960 --> 01:31:30.880
I feel envy.

01:31:39.360 --> 01:31:41.760
God, what will you do now?

01:31:43.520 --> 01:31:44.360
Wait...

01:31:45.440 --> 01:31:46.620
and pray.

01:31:56.780 --> 01:32:03.460
In the name of the Empire, Michael
Sattler, heretic and seducer, shall be

01:32:03.460 --> 01:32:04.940
committed to the execution.

01:32:06.280 --> 01:32:11.300
The executioner is first charged to cut
the heretic's tongue from his mouth.

01:32:12.600 --> 01:32:18.960
Glowing iron tongs shall tear the
seducer's flesh seven times between his

01:32:18.960 --> 01:32:21.160
first ordeal and the fire.

01:32:22.420 --> 01:32:27.440
And then his body shall be burned to
powder as an arch heretic.

01:33:32.290 --> 01:33:33.010
Gunpowder.

01:33:35.190 --> 01:33:35.910
Hurry up.

01:34:05.310 --> 01:34:11.250
Two days after Michael Sattler burned on
the bank of the Neckar, Margareta was

01:34:11.250 --> 01:34:13.590
taken to the same river and drowned.

01:34:15.250 --> 01:34:16.310
How, Michael?

01:34:17.670 --> 01:34:20.570
How could you condemn us to such
defenselessness?

01:34:22.090 --> 01:34:24.750
How could you face death with such
certainty?

01:34:26.970 --> 01:34:29.830
It seemed so clear to me when it first
began.

01:34:31.250 --> 01:34:35.350
But with each passing day, more
Anabaptists are led like sheep to their

01:34:35.350 --> 01:34:35.710
death.

01:34:36.450 --> 01:34:41.550
And I... I am consumed by such doubt.

01:34:46.130 --> 01:34:46.830
Ah...

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Semper Iberius Gloria.