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Luther’s lectures on the minor prophets are hardly minor. In fact, they are so prolific as to require three volumes. The first, Hosea-Malachi, is compiled from the so-called Altenburg manuscript, and complemented with a Zwicjau manuscript and a Wittenburg manuscript. These pieces put together present a complete set of commentaries on these minor prophets. These lectures occupied Luther’s lecture...

said. After all, Satan is always tireless; he is always pressing to completion what he has begun. Therefore he adds: Let not your hands grow weak. That is, “Persist! Don’t stop! Persevere, etc.” 17. He will rejoice over you with gladness. All these things signify that their consciences would experience that fatherly sweetness of the kingdom of the Lord. The sense is this: “You will feel joy. You will feel in your conscience that the Lord is kindly disposed toward you, that He surely is a kind Father
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