the lawyers of his day by attempting (without success, it turned out) to bequeath his estate to Katie Luther. Despite the best efforts of his colleagues, Justus Jonas and Philip Melanchthon, Luther’s will was not followed.53 An “Ought” Never Implies a “Can” Why did Luther spend half the text of the Large Catechism talking about the commandments? Part of the reason may have had to do with the proto-antinomian talk of his former student John Agricola.54 However, Luther also provided an even more important
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