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Volume 2 of The Annotated Luther series contains a number of the writings categorized under the theme word and faith. Luther was particularly focused on what the word “does” in order to create and sustain faith. Writings in the volume range from the large core documents Bondage of the Will, Against the Heavenly Prophets, The Smalcald Articles, and Large Catechism to Luther’s own Confession of...

had received the law. The Gentiles on the other hand have it written on their heart, and there is no distinction [Rom. 3:22], as St. Paul also shows in the second chapter of Romans [:14–15]: the Gentiles, who have no law, have the law written on their hearts. But just as the Jews err, so also do the Gentiles. Therefore it is natural to honor God, not steal, not commit adultery, not bear false witness, not kill. What Moses commands is not new. For what God gave the Jews from heaven through Moses,
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