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The Annotated Luther, Volume 5: Christian Life in the World is unavailable, but you can change that!

Volume 5 of The Annotated Luther series features Luther’s writings that intersect church and state, faith, and life lived as a follower of Christ. His insights regarding marriage, trade, public education, and war are articulated. His theological and biblical insights also colored the way he spoke of the Jews and Turks, as well his admonition to the German peasants in their uprisings against the...

That is what the prophets mean in Psalm 110[:3], “Your people will act of their free volition”; and in Isaiah 11[:9], “They shall not hurt or destroy in all my holy mountain”; and again in Isaiah 2[:4], “They shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks, and no one shall lift up the sword against another, neither shall they put their efforts into war any more,” etc. Whoever would extend the application of these and similar passages to wherever Christ’s name is mentioned,
Pages 97–98