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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians by Martin Luther: which they reject the Gospel, and receive with gusto the abominable rules,
ordinances, and traditions of men in preference to the Word of God, until they
went so far as to forbid marriage. God punished them justly, because they
blasphemed the only Son of God.
This is, then, our general conclusion: "By the works of the law shall no flesh
be justified."
VERSE 17. But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves
also are found sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin? God
forbid.
Either we are not justified by Christ, or we are not justified by the Law. The
fact is, we are justified by Christ. Hence, we are not justified by the Law.
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