Prefaces and History

Prefaces, History, Philology, and Editorial Works

Prefaces, historical notices, philological notes, and other works that sit outside a single biblical book.

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Prefaces, History, Philology, and Later Prophets

Forewords. - Historical and philological writings.

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Prefaces, History, Philology, and Later Prophets

Foreword.

The old edition of Walch contains in its fourteenth volume two main parts, each of which is provided with special pagination. The first part contains Luther's prefaces, as well as

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Prefaces, History, Philology, and Later Prophets

1. Warning D. Mart. Luth.*)

St. Paul says: Avarice is the root of all evil. We experience such a saying in our shameful, evil time so powerfully as one does not find much of the same in all histories. For jus

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2. preface from the Old Testament. *)

(First published in 1523.) (1) Some think that the Old Testament was given to the Jewish people alone, and that it is now gone, and only writes about past stories; they think that

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3. preface about the book of Job

with the appendix found in the first printing Anno 1524. *) 1 The book of Job deals with this question: whether even the pious suffer misfortune from God? Here Job stands firm and

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4. preface from the Psalter. *)

1528 or 1529. (1) Many holy fathers have praised and loved the Psalter especially above other books of Scripture. And indeed, the work itself praises its master enough; but we must

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5 Preface on the Psalter published in Neuburg on the Danube in 1545. *)

1 Every Christian who wishes to pray and be devout should let the Psalter be his little book, and it would be good for every Christian to practice it and become so proficient in it

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6. preface to the books of Solomon. *)

(1) Three books have the name of Solomon. The first is Proverbia, Proverbs, which may be called a book of good works, for in it he teaches how to live well before God and the world

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7. preface from the Proverbs of Solomon. *)

(1) Because this book in particular has much to do with fools and wise men, and everywhere praises wisdom and chides foolishness, it is necessary to hear the language and words tha

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8. preface from Ecclesiastes.

1 This book is called Koheleth in Hebrew, which is one who speaks publicly in a congregation. For Kahal means a congregation gathered together, which in Greek is called Ekklesia. O

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9. preface to the prophets. *)

It seems to reason that the prophets are of little use, especially when Master Klügel, who knows the holy scriptures by heart and on the nails, comes upon them; out of the great we

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25 Preface to the Wisdom of Solomon, *)

1. 1) Because the present Diet at Speier has divided us, that we, who have taken the prophets before us to be fully translated, may not all be with each other, and I have been prev

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26. preface from the book Tobia. *)

What is said of the book of Judith may also be said of this book of Tobiah. If it is a story, then it is a fine, holy story. But if it is a poem, then it is truly a quite beautiful

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39. preface from the second brook of the Maccabees. *)

This is called and shall be the other book Maccabaeorum, as the title indicates. But this cannot be right, because it reports some history that happened before the first book, and

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32. preface from the New Testament,

according to the edition of Anno 1522 and 1527.**) It would be right and proper that this book should go out without all preface and foreign names, and only bear its own new name a

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33. warning D. Mari. Luther to his New Testament printed,

Anno 1539.*) I ask all my friends and enemies, my master printers and readers, to let this New Testament be mine. Have they

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34. preface to the Acts. *)

(1) This book is to be read and regarded, not as we have done, as if St. Lucas had written in it only the personal works or history of the apostles, as an example of good works or

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Preface from the Epistle of St. Paul to the Romans. *)

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According to the Zwickau manuscript.

Begun in March, finished April 7, 1525; printed 1886. Translated from Latin.

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The sixth chapter.

Judicium, rather a matter of strife. He punishes the rich. He is all about punishing their customs and their vices, and admonishing them to walk rightly. He is bold, for the Lord h

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The second chapter.

Here he still urges them to convert and shows them the destruction of the neighboring Gentiles and the surrounding peoples. 3) We have seen in the previous chapter the prophetic th

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The thirteenth chapter.

At that time the house of David and the citizens of Jerusalem will have a free open fountain against sin and uncleanness. 1. all this is said to confirm the previous speeches about