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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...

condemned sin with sin” (Romans 8[:3]), drove away death with death, overcame Law with Law. How did He do this? He became a sinner on the cross with the title “in the midst of the evildoers” [Matt. 27:38; Mark 15:27; Luke 23:33; John 19:18]. As an archcriminal He suffered the judgment and punishment a sinner ought to suffer. He was innocent, had never committed any sin, and yet the name and the guilt or punishment actually fell on Him. So just in that way—that He loaded the sin onto Himself, which
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