Commentary on Genesis, Vol. 1: Luther on the CreationLuther, Martin
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Commentary on Genesis, Vol. 1: Luther on the Creation
Luther, Martin
Bible. Genesis -- Commentaries
In the Introduction of Vol. I in the Psalms, to which the reader is
referred, it was stated that the key-note of all of the "sacred books"
of the East is "Salvation by Works." And yet in the face of this
Protestants are asked to believe that they are "sacred books," when
their main teachings are directly contrary to what we have been taught
to esteem as most sacred, namely, our Christian faith in the grace of
Christ for salvation. To Protestants they are not sacred books but the
very opposite. I would far rather call the writings of Luther sacred,
which teach and defend the doctrine of salvation by grace as taught by
the one great Book, although it stands alone and protests against the
false teachings of the so-called sacred books of the east.
However let us now look more closely at the west. Here we find that
Protestants have shown commendable zeal and enterprise in translating,
publishing and circulating the large libraries of the Greek and Latin
church fathers. Every pastor continuously receives circulars with the
almost irresistible temptation to purchase the patristic writings of
both Catholic churches. This is all well, but we should not forget
that the Anglo-Saxon people are neither Greeks nor Latins, but
Teutons, and that our Teuton church fathers are Protestants and they
also should be translated, published, circulated and read and taught.
Little Wittenberg dare not fall behind Constantinople and Rome. It
ought not.
_For "Saxon and Norman and Dane are We."_
True the Teutons can and do learn from the Greek and Latin church
fathers, but we also believe that the children of the old Greeks and
Latins can learn much from our Teuton fathers, and that they have as
good reasons to welcome our classic church literature as we have
theirs; and we hope the day may soon come when they will translate and
read ours as faithfully and impartially as we do theirs. What a
blessing that would bring to Christendom!
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