Matth. 19, 27-30.
Then Peter answered and said unto him, Behold, we have forsaken all, and followed thee: what shall we have for it? And Jesus said unto them: Verily I say unto you, That ye which have followed me, in the regeneration, when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit in twelve seats, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. And whosoever shall leave house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, the same shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit life eternal. But many that are first shall be last, and the last shall be first.
Stephanus Rodt to the reader.
Since there is no sermon on this gospel, as there is on many other gospels of the feasts, I do not want to make a new one; since almost in all gospels one thing is dealt with and always practiced, namely, faith, love, and the holy cross; in addition, everything that is written through and through in the Scriptures, alone, goes so that we may rightly learn to know this one person, Christ Jesus; of which then now and then almost in all books of D. Martin Luther enough and superfluous is written, but especially in the postils. Martin Luther's books sufficiently and superfluously, but especially in the postilions, that I consider it unnecessary to read any of them.
Gospel to postilliren and thus the world with many books shower. Everything has been made clear enough, if only we would read it and not be too lazy. Therefore, if some gospels remain uninterpreted here, anyone who is to preach to others may recover such gospel interpretation in other books and especially in the postilions, and thus accustom himself to seek the understanding of the gospels. But if anyone is so lazy and careless that he will not take the time to seek it out, or is so simple-minded and unintelligent that he will not take the time to seek it out, he will not take the time to seek it out.
He may take before him any sermon from the common sermons, which we want to put at the end after the festival sermons here in this booklet and in the winter section later, where we have other space, and may read the same to his people. Which I want to have reminded here at once, so that no one is annoyed by it.
or think that it was omitted by omission. But if there is any feast whose history is described in the Gospel, we will gladly put it in this booklet, so that everyone may have it at hand; as is the history of today's feast of the conversion of St. Paul, which Lucas describes in the Histories of the Apostles, Cap. 9, 1-22. Follows the