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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.
1Wherefore these words: I am dead to the law, are very effectual. For he sayeth not: I am free from the law for a time, or I am Lord of the law: but simply, I am dead to the law, that is to say, I have nothing to do with the law. Paul could have uttered nothing more effectually against justification of the law, then to say: I am dead to the law, that is, I care nothing at all for the law: therefore I am not justified by it.
1Wherfore these words: I am dead to the lavv, are very effectuall. For he sayeth not: I am free from the law for a time, or I am Lord of the lawe: but simplie, I am dead to the lawe, that is to say, I haue nothing to do wt the law. Paule could haue vttred nothīg more effectually against iustification of the law, then to say: I am dead to ye law, that is, I care nothing at all for the law: therfore I am not iustified by it.
- 1I am dead to the law.I am dead to the lavv.
1Now, to die to the law, is, not to be bound to the law, but to be free from the law & not to know it. Therefore let him that will live to God, endeavour that he may be found without the law, & let him come out of the grave with Christ. The soldiers were astonished when Christ was risen out of the grave: and they also which saw the maiden raised up from death to life, were amazed. So mans reason and wisdom is astonished and becometh foolish when it heareth that we are not justified, except we be dead to the law: for it is not able to reach unto this mystery. But we know that when we apprehend Christ by faith inwardly in conscience, we enter into a certain new law, which swalloweth up the old law that held us captives. As the grave in which Christ lay dead, after that he was risen again, was void and empty, and Christ vanished away: so when I believe in Christ, I rise again with him, and die to my grave, that is to say, the law, which held me captive: So that now the law is void, and I am escaped out of my prison and grave, that is to say, the law. Wherefore the law hath no right to accuse me, or to hold me any longer, for I am risen again.