"If I had all faith" 2c., item: "Love is the greatest among them." *)
Translated from Latin.
I answer the opponents that Paul takes faith for a spiritual gift.
(2) But because love is the greatest of all spiritual gifts, it is rightly preferred to such faith.
3. I answer the wranglers and quarrelsome, Paul speaks here conditionally: "If I had all faith" 2c.
4. the godly can also be used as ant
The first part of the text says that although faith is taken here for the faith that justifies, love is greater than such faith, and without it it is nothing. 1)
Anno 1535.
1) Luther's marginal gloss on this passage [1 Cor. 13:2] has almost the same content: Although faith alone makes righteous, as St. Paul does everywhere; but where love did not follow, faith would certainly not be right, even though it did wonders.
*) This disputation is found in the Thesensammlung of 1558. In the collective editions: in the Wittenberg, Dorn. I, col. 398; in the Jena one (1579), Dorn. I, toi. 514b and in the Erlangen, oM. var. ar^., vol. IV, p. 412. We have translated according to the Jena.