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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Concerning Christian Liberty by Martin Luther: Although these statements appear contradictory, yet, when they
are found to agree together, they will make excellently for my
purpose. They are both the statements of Paul himself, who says,
"Though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant
unto all" (1 Cor. ix. 19), and "Owe no man anything, but to love
one another" (Rom. xiii. 8). Now love is by its own nature
dutiful and obedient to the beloved object. Thus even Christ,
though Lord of all things, was yet made of a woman; made under
the law; at once free and a servant; at once in the form of God
and in the form of a servant.
Let us examine the subject on a deeper and less simple principle.
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