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Fruit for the Soul: Luther on the Lament Psalms is unavailable, but you can change that!

Given a life spent in scholarship and controversy, it is easy to forget how much energy Martin Luther devoted to helping the common person understand and take comfort from God’s word. This commitment extended to even the most challenging of biblical texts, and nowhere is this more apparent than Luther’s work on the lament psalms. Difficult to understand, and perhaps even more difficult to...

This basis is borne out in his lecture on Psalm 51 (1532), where he asserts, The proper subject of theology is man guilty of sin and condemned, and God the justifier and savior of man the sinner. Whatever is asked or discussed in theology outside the subject is error and poison. All Scripture points to this, that God commends his kindness to us and in His Son restores to righteousness and life the nature that has fallen into sin and condemnation.12 A true theologian must adhere to “this aim of reading
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