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The Lectures on Genesis are remarkably extensive in their sweep and give conclusive proof of extraordinary diligence. Luther expounds Scripture in the light of Scripture. Furthermore, he couches his treatment of the Biblical text in a language of simplicity without compromising his forthright way of speaking that evidences profound learning. In the third volume of the American Edition of Luther's...

not be extended to the heathen but must be restricted to אֵל and שַׁדַּי, that is, to the people which was still under Moses before the coming of the true Seed of Abraham. For this law concerning circumcision was imposed on the Jews, not in order that they might be justified by it—for then Christ would have been promised in vain—but in order that they might be a people separated from all other peoples, in order that it might be known from what people, from what part of the world, the Savior was to
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