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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.
We must not then imagine Christ to be innocent & as a private person (as do the Schoolmen, and almost all the Fathers have done) which is holy and righteous for him self only.1 True it is in deed that Christ is a person most pure and unspotted: but thou must not stay there: for thou hast not yet Christ, although thou know him to be God and man: but then thou hast him in deed, when thou believest that this most pure and innocent person is freely given unto thee of the Father to be thy high Priest and Saviour,2 yea rather thy servant, that he putting off his innocency and holiness, and taking thy ⟨image 142⟩sinful person upon him, might bear thy sin, thy death, and thy Curse, and might be made a sacrifice and a Curse for thee, that by this means he might deliver thee from the Curse of the law.
We must not thē imagine Christ to be innocent & as a priuate person (as doe the Schoolemen, and almost all the Fathers haue done) which is holy and righteous for him selfe onely.1 True it is in deede that Christe is a person most pure and vnspotted: but thou must not stay there: for thou hast not yet Christe, although thou knowe him to be God and man: but then thou hast him in deede, when thou beleeuest that this most pure and innocent person is freely geuen vnto thee of the Father to be thy high Priest and Sauiouer,2 yea rather thy seruaunt, that he putting off his innocentie and holines, and taking thy ⟨image 142⟩sinnefull person vpon him, might beare thy sinne, thy death, and thy Curse, and might be made a sacrifice and a Curse for thee, that by this meanes he might deliuer thee from the Curse of the lawe.
- 1All men, yea the most holy, remain under the Curse, without Christ.