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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. 20. I am crucified with Christ.
Verse. 20. I am crucified vvith Christ.
This he addeth to declare that the law is a devourer of the law. Not only (saith he) I am dead to the law through the law that I may live to God, but also I am crucified with Christ. But Christ is Lord over the law because he is crucified and dead unto the law: Therefore am I also Lord over the law: for I likewise am crucified and dead unto the law for as much as I am crucified and dead with Christ. By what means? By grace and faith. Through this faith, because I am now crucified and dead unto the law, therefore the law looseth all his ⟨image 85⟩power which it had over me, even as it hath lost all his power which it had over Christ.1 Wherefore even as Christ himself was crucified to the law, sin, death and the Devil, so that they have no further power over him: even so I through faith being now crucified with Christ in spirit, am crucified and dead to the law, sin, death and the Devil, so that they have no further power over me, but are now crucified and dead unto me.
This he addeth to declare that the law is a deuourer of the law. Not onely (saith he) I am dead to the law through the law that I may liue to God, but also I am crucified with Christ. But Christ is Lord ouer the law because he is crucified and dead vnto the law: Therfore am I also Lord ouer the law: for I likewise am crucified and dead vnto the lawe for as much as I am crucified and dead with Christ. By what meanes? By grace and faith. Through this faith, because I am nowe crucified and deade vnto the law, therfore the law looseth all his