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167 D. Matt. Luther's disputation on the great supper. *)

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167 D. Matt. Luther's disputation on the great supper. *)

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Translated from Latin.

Whether

(1) The man who made a great supper, who prepared all the food for free for those who were invited?

2. Christ, who by Himself made the supper of eternal blessedness, dispenses all things freely to those who have been called by the gospel.

(3) Those who understand love by the wedding garment can be tolerated, if only they do not think that through it the invited will be justified.

(4) Although a summoned person may justifiably

is damned because he does not have the garment of love, the one who has it is not justified by it or for its sake.

5. love is the fruit of righteousness, not righteousness itself, unless you are talking about the one you have begun, which, though still impure and imperfect, is nevertheless pleasing to God according to His pardoning mercy.

(6) Faith, which clothes us with the righteousness of Christ, is truly the wedding garment, and is active through love, or does works of love.

*) This disputation is found in the collections of Luther's disputations of 1538 and 1558. In the former, the superscription is: "Circulardisputation, which is to be held next Friday under the chairmanship of D. Martin Luther." Then in the Latin Jena (1579), Dom. I, toi. 515k and in the Erlanger, oxx. var. arg., vol. IV, p. 419. We have translated according to the Jenaer.

1468 L. V. a. IV, 452 f. 168. theological disputation on Hebr. 13, 8. W. XIX, 1782-1784. 1469