that he was not righteous and God was. He couldn’t see much good news in a gospel that reveals the righteousness of God to people who aren’t righteous. During the course of his preparations, Luther read some works by the patron of his order, Augustine of Hippo. On Romans 1:17, Augustine wrote: “He does not say, the righteousness of man, or the righteousness of his own will, but the ‘righteousness of God,’—not that whereby He is Himself righteous, but that with which He endows man when He justifies
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