Luther’s Works, Volume 76 (Biblia.com)

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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...

9. From this we can easily understand what He means by “keeping” [John 8:51], [namely,] that it is not said about the kind of keeping we do when we keep the Law with works. This word of Christ must be kept in the heart by faith, and not with the fist or with works. The Jews here understand it [about works], and horribly rage against Christ that Abraham and the prophets died [John 8:52], but they do not know what “keeping,” “dying,” or “living” mean. It is not for nothing that He calls it “keeping,”

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