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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. 5. He therefore that ministereth to you the spirit, and worketh miracles among you, doth he it through the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith preached?
Verse. 5. He therfore that ministreth to you the spirite, and vvorketh miracles among you, doth he it through the vvorkes of the lavve, or by the hearing of faith preached?
1This argument grounded upon the experience of the Galatians doth so well like the Apostle, that after he hath rebuked and terrified them, setting before them a double danger and incommodity, he now repeateth the same again, and that with a more large amplification, saying: He which ministereth &c, That is to say: Ye have not only received the spirit by the hearing of faith, but whatsoever ye have either known or done, ye have it by the hearing of faith. As though he would say: It was not enough that God gave you once the spirit: but the same God also hath enriched you with the gifts of the spirit, and increased the same in you, to the end that ye having once received the spirit, it might always grow and be more and more effectual in you. Hereby it is plain, that the Galatians had wrought miracles, or at the least had showed such fruits of faith as the true Disciples of the Gospel are wont to bring forth. For the Apostle elsewhere saith, That the kingdom of God is not in word, 2but in power. Now, this power is not only to be able to speak of the kingdom of God: but also in very deed to show that God through his spirit is effectual in us. So, before in the second chapter he saith of him self: He that was effectual in Peter among the Jews, was also effectual in me: he that was mighty by Peter in the Apostleship over the Circumcision,