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This volume brings forth Luther’s sermons on Epistle and Gospel texts in the historic one-year lectionary series from the Festival of the Holy Trinity through the Tenth Sunday after Trinity. Additionally, this collection features Luther’s sermons on 1 John 4:16–21, never before translated and previously omitted from the Church Postil. Readers will gain new insight from Luther’s topics for...

up into the clouds before the disciples’ eyes. He will also visibly return and show Himself to all people [Acts 1:6–11]. 63. Thus it says that the Son of Man descended and again ascended, and yet at the same time remained in heaven in the divine essence, power, and eternal communion with the Father. He is speaking here not about a physical change of place but about the spiritual passage of His humiliation and exaltation, that is, about His suffering and death and resurrection and heavenly communion
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