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The new translation of the Church Postil follows the last edition of Luther’s life, from 1540–1544, and includes Luther’s often-extensive revisions to his own work, with significant variant readings from earlier editions translated in the footnotes. This volume of Martin Luther’s Church Postil includes the sermons on the Epistle and Gospel readings from New Year through Holy Week, plus...

Second—which was the most difficult, which other mothers do not experience and which makes this suffering the worst—because she must defend herself before God, who is the only true Father of this Child. She had to think that He would no longer have or recognize her as His mother, and so she was more miserable and troubled in heart than any other woman on earth. She now felt in her heart that she was in the same sin as our first mother, Eve, who brought the whole human race to ruin. What are all sins
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