bonum there would be no reason for man to love Him. But such love, Luther sees, is not true love at all. It is not love for God, but deceptive self-love. For what kind of love is it, that will not let God be God, but wishes to have Him at its own service? The Schoolmen, of course, could protest that, so far from making God into man’s servant, they clearly meant man to be His, for they taught the necessity of obedience to God’s Law and Commandment, if man would merit his desired ‘good’. But Luther