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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. 17. For the flesh lusteth against the spirit, and the spirit against the flesh.
Verse. 17. For the flesh lusteth against the spirite, and the spirite against the flesh.
When Paul sayeth that the flesh lusteth against the spirit, and the spirit against the flesh, he admonisheth us that we must feel the concupiscence of the flesh,1 that is to say, not only carnal lust, but also pride, wrath, heaviness, impatience, incredulity, and such like. Notwithstanding he would have us so to feel them, that we consent not unto ⟨p. 250⟩them, nor accomplish them: that is, that we neither think, speak, nor do those things which the flesh provoketh us unto. As, if it move us to anger, yet we should be angry in such wise (as we are taught in the fourth Psalm) that we sin not. As if Paul would thus say:2 I know that the flesh will provoke you unto wrath, envy, doubting, incredulity and such like: But resist it by the spirit, that ye sin not. But if ye forsake the guiding of the spirit, and follow the flesh, ye shall fulfil the lusts of the flesh, and ye shall die, as Paul saith in the .8. to the Romans. So this saying of the Apostle is to be understand, not of fleshly lust only, but of the whole kingdom of sin.
When Paule sayeth that the flesh lusteth against the spirite, and the spirite against the flesh, he admonisheth vs that we must feele the concupiscence of the flesh,