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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. 12. Would to God they were cut of that do disquiet you.
Verse. 12. VVould to God they vvere cutte of that doe disquiet you.
Is this the part of an Apostle, not only to denounce the false apostles to be troublers,1 to condemn them and to deliver them to Satan, but also to wish that they might be utterly rooted out and perish? And what is this else but plain cursing? Paul (as I suppose) alludeth here to circumcision. As if he would say: They compel you to cut of the foreskin of your flesh: but I would that they themselves might be utterly cut off by the root.
Is this the part of an Apostle, not onely to denounce the false apostles to be troublers,1 to condemne them and to deliuer them to Sathan, but also to wish that they might be vtterly rooted out and pearish? And what is this else but plaine cursing? Paule (as I suppose) alludeth here to circumcision. As if he would say: They compell you to cutte of the foresakin of your flesh: but I would that they themselues might be vtterly cutte off by the roote.
- 1Paul wisheth that the false apostles were cut of.Paul vvisheth that the false apostles vvere cutte of.