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These lectures give eloquent evidence of Luther’s determined espousal of the doctrine of justification by faith. But although in 1531 the Reformer’s position with regard to this cardinal teaching of the Holy Writ was identical with what he had set forth in his earlier series of lectures, a sharp difference is discernible to a careful reader. The Luther of 1535 has at his command far greater...

and who, as the Anabaptists imagine today, suffer need, hunger, cold, and tattered clothing, rather than those others who own property, etc. Therefore it is impossible for them to be at peace with those who do not agree with their opinions, but they will bite and devour them. By contrast, Paul teaches that such occasions for discord are to be avoided; and he shows how they can be avoided. “The way to achieve concord,” he says, “is this: Let each do his duty in that way of life into which God has
Volume 27, Pages 62–63