| Obbe Philips |
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Obbe Philips became interested in the Reformation , and converted to Anabaptism late in 1533 . He was probably baptized by Bartholomeus Boekbinder or Willem De Kuyper , emissaries of Jan Matthys . Menno Simons was ordained around 1537 by Obbe Philips, and was probably baptized earlier by Philips also. Obbe also ordained his brother, Dirk Philips , and baptized David Joris . Obbe and Dirk were among the peaceful disciples of Melchior Hoffman (the more radical having set up the kingdom in Münster ), and as early as 1534 were preaching against establishing God's kingdom by force. Hoffman introduced the first self-sustaining Anabaptism to the Netherlands , when he taught and practiced believers' baptism in Emden in East Frisia . Obbe led the Dutch Anabaptists until around by Menno (after the disciple Demas, who forsook the Apostle Paul ). In his ''Confession'' he spoke harshly against revolutionaries and false prophets, but not against the peaceful Anabaptists such as followed Menno. His last years remain a mystery, but probably held as an individual a "spiritualist" belief similar to Anabaptism. He died in 1568 . The Anabaptists that would become known as Mennonites were originally called ''Obbenites'' or ''Obbenists''. W. J. Kühler, in ''Geschiedenis I'' (1932), concluded that "in Obbe the brotherhood certainly lost its most appealing leader." REFERENCES
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