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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,”...

same language, and the contrast was good enough: “The way of the righteous, the way of the wicked,” and simplicity of words would have been preserved.30 The way of the ungodly, he says, has such a beautiful appearance that they are looked upon by men as if they could rise in judgment and council. But He who is not deceived knows their ways; He knows them to be ungodly, and before Him they do not belong to His church. He knows only the just, not the unjust; that is, He does not approve of them.
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