will have our relationship to him be based on nothing other than mercy; God is in fact most glorified when we live from his mercy alone. God’s “alien work” of accusation exists solely for the “proper work” of mercy. The rupture between law and gospel (“Let him who is without sin among you …”) is established for the sake of the gospel (“Neither do I condemn you; go, and from now on sin no more”). Describing this strife even within the divine life, Luther in the Lectures