A06492:346
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. For before that certain came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles.
Verse. 12. For before that certaine came from Iames, he did eate vvith the Gentiles.
1The Gentiles which were converted to the faith, did eat meats forbidden by the law, and Peter being conversant with the Gentiles which were converted, did eat with them, and drunk wine also which was forbidden, knowing that herein he did well, and therefore boldly transgressed the law with the Gentiles. Paul confesseth that he also did the like when he saith that he became as a Jew to the Jews, and to them that were without law,2 as though he were without law: That is to say, with the Gentiles he did eat and drink like a Gentile and kept no law at all: with the Jews, according to the law he abstained from all things forbidden in the law. For he laboured to serve & please all men that he might gain all. Wherefore Peter in eating and drinking with the Gentiles sinned not, but did well, and knew that it was lawful for him so to do: For he showed by this transgression, that the law was not necessary to righteousness, and also delivered the Gentiles from the observation of the law. For if it were lawful for Peter in one thing to break the law, it was lawful for him to break it in all things. And Paul doth not here reprove Peter for his transgression, but for ⟨p. 53⟩his dissimulation, as followeth.