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trust not in any who exalt you, but in those who humiliate you. For this is the judgment of God: "He hath cast down the mighty from their seat, and hath exalted the humble.

What is meant by a 'pure heart' is this: one that is watching and pondering what God says and replacing its own ideas with the Word of God.

all heathen books are poisoned through and through with this striving after praise and honor.

I ask for the Scripture, and Eck offers me the Fathers. I ask for the sun, and he shows me his lanterns. I ask, "where is your Scripture proof?" and he adduces Ambrose and Cyril. . . . With all due respect to the Fathers, I prefer the authority of Scripture.

Augustine explains: The flesh needs many things even for this life, and this, too, it seeks from God, because not only spiritual things but also earthly things are to be sought from no one but God.

For "no one has ascended into heaven but He who descended" (John 3:13), that is, no one arrives at the understanding of divinity but he who has first been humbled and who has come down to an understanding of himself, for there he discovers the understanding of God at the same time.

No one should be deceived by the glamor of the ceremonies and entangled in the multitude of pompous forms, and thus lose the simplicity of the mass itself

In the opinion of those delicate-eared persons, nothing could be more bitter or intemperate than Paul's language.

Nothing so provokes God as unbelief, for this means denying God directly and thus committing idolatry.

For although greed of itself is idolatry, there was still the additional worship of the idols, or . Rachel

For it is human to avoid or hate because of some error what you do not understand or regard as true; but to persecute manifest and acknowledged truth — this is altogether satanical.

But iniquity on earth is to prefer one's own righteousness to the righteousness of God; indeed, they want the very unrighteousness which they work to be righteousness.

But the world and the godless are not moved by God's wrath and curse.

18. I will put My words in His mouth. This also clearly proves that the Prophet will teach something different.

Thus Augustine says: "We know that we owe our existence to His goodness. We know that we are creatures because of the kindness of God, not because of merit. For it has pleased God that no one should glory except in the Lord.

These words are like so many thunderclaps of protest from heaven against every kind and type of self-merit.

The vicious character of sin is brought out by the words "who gave himself for our sins." So vicious is sin that only the sacrifice of Christ could atone for sin.

he says "firm place" because spiritual goods do not persist in themselves but in God, from whom they gush forth without ceasing.

is not our business to terrify any godless person.

No flesh, not even that of the true believer, is so completely under the influence of the Spirit that it will not bite or devour, or at least neglect, the commandment of love.

Gnatho was the attendant of Thraso in the Eunuchus of Terence, one of Luther's favorite plays; cf. Luther's Works, 13, p. 182; 23, p. 217.

what cruel and bloodthirsty beasts are smug presumption, vain-glory, pride, and carelessness

For such unjust acts of robbery lead automatically to vengeance and punishments, as Augustine's statement bears out. "Gain in the coffer," he says, "harm in the conscience." 55 No unjust gain is without most unjust harm.

Who can love Him if He wants to deal with sinners according to righteousness? Therefore remember that the righteousness of God is that by which we are justified, or the gift of the forgiveness of sins.