At the origin, we are told, is not “ethics,” but an “ethos.”19 Basic decisions of Luther are surely also at work here: the dialectic of law and gospel, which makes it plausible to relegate ethics and cult to the domain of the law and so to oppose it dialectically to Jesus, who, as the bringer of the gospel, fulfills the line of the promise and thus overcomes the law. In order to understand modern exegesis and to judge it correctly, therefore, it would be necessary to reflect anew on Luther’s view