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This volume presents the second half of Luther’s First Lectures on the Psalms. Written from 1513 to 1515, these lectures focus on Psalms 76 to 126. It was a challenging editorial task to assemble these lectures because they were not printed in Luther’s time—the only extant source is the photocopies of the Dresden manuscript of the scholia.

sometimes contrasted with what is false and lying and (2) is sometimes contrasted with the shadow and the figure. In John 6:32 we read: “It was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but My Father gives you the true bread from heaven.” Does this mean that the former bread was false? No, but it was figurative and shadowy. So it is with “I am the true vine” (John 15:1), namely, in opposition to the shadow of the natural vine or even of the false and lying vine. (3)16 Sometimes it is in opposition
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