because, not content with frightening by the law and the miseries of life us wretched sinners, already ruined by original sin, he still further increased our tortures by the gospel.… But when, by the Spirit of God, I understood the words—when I learned how the justification of the sinner proceeds from the free mercy of our Lord through faith … then I felt born again like a new man.… In very truth, this language of Saint Paul was to me the true gate of Paradise.”2 Luther called Romans “the chief