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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. Neither came I to Jerusalem, to them that were Apostles before me, but went into Arabia, and turned again unto Damascus.
Verse. 17. Neither came I to Ierusalem, to them that vvere Apostles before me, but vvent into Arabia, and turned againe vnto Damascus.
That is, I went into Arabia before I saw the Apostles or consulted with them, and forthwith I toke upon me the office of preaching among the Gentiles: for thereunto I was called, and had also received a revelation from God. He did not then receive his gospel of any man, or of the Apostles them selves, but was content with his heavenly calling, and with the revelation of Jesus Christ alone. Wherefore this whole place is a confutation of the false Apostles argument,1 which they used against Paul: saying, that he was but a scholar and hearer of the Apostles, who lived after the law: moreover, that Paul himself also had lived according to the law, and therefore it was necessary that the Gentiles them selves should keep the law and be circumcised. To the end therefore that he might stop the mouths of these cavillers, he rehearseth this long history. Before my conversion (saith he) I learned not my Gospel of the Apostles, nor of any other of the brethren that believed (for I persecuted extremely, not only this doctrine, but also the Church of God, and wasted it): neither after my conversion, for I preached straight ways, not Moses with his law, but Jesus Christ at Damascus, consulting with no man, neither as yet having seen any of the Apostles.
That is, I went into Arabia before I saw the Apostles or consulted with them, and forthwith I toke vpon me the office of preaching among the Gentiles: for thervnto I was called, and had also receaued a reuelation from God. He did not then receiue his gospell of any man, or of the Apostles them selues, but was content with his heauenly calling, and with the reuelation of Iesus Christ alone. Wherefore this whole place is a confutation of the false Apostles argument,