Luther’s Works, Volume 14 (Biblia.com)

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The commentaries contained in this volume show conclusively that Luther achieved great things in the field of Biblical scholarship. Luther’s language is simple and always to the point. He curries to no one’s favor as he goes to the heart of the sixteen psalms expounded in this volume. His attention to the texts is “personal, devotional, political, exegetical, polemical—all at the same time,”...

21. Do not forsake me, O Lord! O my God, be not far from me! “I am lonely, forsaken by all and despised. Do Thou receive me, and do not forsake me.” It is God’s nature to make something out of nothing; hence one who is not yet nothing, out of him God cannot make anything. Man, however, makes something else out of that which exists; but this has no value whatever. Therefore God accepts only the forsaken, cures only the sick, gives sight only to the blind, restores life only to the dead, sanctifies

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