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Commentary upon the Epistle to the Galatians
A commentary of M. Doctor Martin Luther upon the Epistle of S. Paul to the Galatians first collected and gathered word by word out of his preaching, and now out of Latin faithfully translated into English for the unlearned. Wherein is set forth most excellently the glorious riches of Gods grace ...A commentarie of M. Doctor Martin Luther vpon the Epistle of S. Paul to the Galathians first collected and gathered vvord by vvord out of his preaching, and novv out of Latine faithfully translated into English for the vnlearned. Wherein is set forth most excellently the glorious riches of Gods grace ...
London: printed by Thomas Vautroullier dwelling wihtin sic, 1575London: printed by Thomas Vautroullier dvvelling vvihtin sic, 1575
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Verse. 13. And ye know how through infirmity of the flesh, I preached the Gospel unto you at the first. And the trial of me which was in my flesh, ye despised not, neither abhorred, but ye received me as an angel of God, yea, as Christ Jesus.
Verse. 13. And ye knovv hovv through infirmitie of the flesh, I preached the Gospell vnto you at the first. And the triall of me vvhich vvas in my flesh, ye despised not, neither abhorred, but ye receaued me as an angell of God, yea, as Christ Iesus.
Now he declareth what pleasures he had received of the Galatians. ⟨image 204⟩The first benefit (saith he) which I esteem greatest of all,1 was this. When I began first to preach the Gospel amongst you, & that through infirmity of the flesh and great tentations, my cross did nothing at all offend you. But ye showed your selves so loving, so kind and so friendly towards me, that not only ye were not offended with this my infirmity of the flesh, with my tentations and perils wherewith I was almost overwhelmed: but also ye loved me dearly, and received me as an angel of God, yea rather as Jesus Christ himself. This is in deed a great commendation of the Galatians,2 that they received the Gospel of a man so contemptible and afflicted on every side as Paul was. For where he preached the Gospel amongest them, both the Jews & and Gentiles murmured and raged against him. For all the mighty, wise, religious and learned men, hated, persecuted, & blasphemed Paul. With all this the Galatians were no whit offended, but turning their eyes from the beholding of this infirmity, these tentations & dangers, they did not only hear that pore, despised, wretched & afflicted Paul and acknowledged them selves to be his disciples, but also they received and heard him as an angel of God, yea as Jesus Christ himself. This is a worthy commendation and a singular virtue of the Galatians: and in deed it is such a commendation as he giveth to non of all those to whom he wrote, besides these Galatians.