1. Christ destroyed the kingdom of death with his death.
2 One may well believe the gospel,
*This sermon appeared in seven separate printings in 1522, 1523 and 1524. Cf. A. 15, 505.
D. Red.
because we will be allowed to do it, because we will not be allowed to do it for even a little while.
(3) For there follows a terrible, horrible blindness when the gospel is despised: let the Jews be an example to us, as ours are now.
This Gospel is beautifully interpreted in the Annotationibus Philippi Melanchthonis, which we recently, God willing, want to have translated. Therefore it is here without need
If anyone wants it, let him look for it himself. Now we want to put hereafter what D. Martin Luther has preached about the holy cross at this time. - Rodt.