Neighbors. God must hold the hearts and fists of the neighbors, guide and turn them to peace, and steer and ward off the unruly ones. 5, 1313.
Neighbor. We are all neighbors to one another, the one who shows kindness to the other and the one who needs help. 11, 1543. According to all men's understanding, neighbors are those who belong together before God, where one needs help and the other can help. 11, 1566. While we live here on earth, we should also give ourselves to our neighbor as God has given Himself to us. 9, 1189. Our neighbor is every human being, especially the one who needs our help. 9, 670. Everyone beware of these pagan teachings: Thou shalt be thy own neighbor, and the like. 8, 1596. God does not need our help, but our neighbor is in need of our help, not God. 6, 838. Because we have received undeserved grace from God, we should do the same to our neighbor. 13, 952. If you want to serve Christ yourself and wait for him, you have your sick neighbor before you; go to him and serve him, and you will surely find Christ in him. 10, 2020. Whoever is not ready in his heart to help his neighbor with all that he is able, has not yet taken care of the child of Jesus. 11, 2032. If you do not do to your neighbor what Christ did to you, you do not have faith in Christ. 12, 1834. The lesser the neighbor is, the more I should accept him, not otherwise than as if he were my own flesh and blood, for Christ has put on our flesh 2c. 11, 2031. God has no power over you, though you never build a church for him, if you alone are useful to your neighbor. 11, 1342. He who passes before his neighbor also passes before God. 13, 858. We have gone to St. Jacob, to Aachen, to Rome, to Jerusalem, have built churches, have founded masses, and have forgotten our neighbor 2c. 11, 1341. We should deal with our neighbor's sin, just as Christ did: not judging, not talking back, not despising, but seeking to get out of his way.
Night. That the night and the day alternate and change is for the sake of men and animals, that they may have their rest and be refreshed thereby. 1, 51. The night is the first part of the day. 3, 27. The night was divided into four watches by the ancients. 5, 759. The Jews also divided the night into four fourths; therefore we read in the Scriptures that it is often written: about the first night watch, about the other, third and fourth night watch. 8, 943 f.
Night Ghosts. How Luther instructed a young man, a blacksmith, who had been deceived and frightened by night ghosts. 22, 772.
naked. After the fall, Adam would have been ashamed to be seen naked by God and man, because his trust in God was lost through disobedience. 1, 204.
naked. It does not take place that we would like to think that Isaiah walked completely naked, but he only walked in a short garment while he had taken off the long garment. 14, 1184.
Naaman. Naaman was converted by the word and teaching of the prophet Elisha, so that he was no longer a Gentile, but a true member of the church. 2, 1830. Naaman of Syria did not come to circumcision through the prophet Elisha and yet became holy and God's child, no doubt many with him; so also Job 2c. 20, 1882.
Nail marks. The nail marks on the hands and feet of Christ are commonly said to be transparent. I believe that there are scars in that place. 13, 1943.
nourish. God proved to Israel in the wilderness that he could feed and clothe them without human intervention. 3, 1608.
Nahum. Nahum in Hebrew means a comforter or one comforted. 14, 1332. Nahum means a comforter or a comforted. 14, 1374. Nahum, in German a Tröster, comforts the people of God, as their enemies, the Assyrians, shall be disturbed again. 14, 62 f. Nahum prophesies about the disturbance that the Assyrians were going to cause against Israel and Judah. Therefore, it seems that he was before Isaiah, or ever around the same time. 14, 62.
Name. Name means a good rumor, fame, praise, honor. 7, 1411. Where it comes from that the same persons are called by different names. 2, 987 ff. Luther says that common names are the best. All people expected an unusual name when John, his first son, was born 2c.
22, 1896. The old Germans gave the princes and lords very fine names, as Ludewig, Heger, Hermann. 5, 715. The names given by the parents to the children in the Scriptures are not just invented, but either contain a prophecy or indicate the outcome. 1, 398. The names of the descendants of Cain are given to them out of special advice, also not without special meaning, as also the names of the pious patriarchs. 1, 383. All names that God gives bring with them what they are. 7, 1582. All names of God have the same power if you have godly faith; without the same, even the name of the Holy Trinity cannot benefit you. 4, 492. The Hebrews boast that they have ten names of God. 4, 491. Jerome in epistola ad Marcellum enumerates ten names of God: El, Elohim, Elohe, Zebaoth, Eljon, Ehje, Adonai, Jah, Jehovah, Schadai. 20, 2057. There are probably more names of God in Scripture than those listed by Jerome: Ab, Bore, Or, Chai 2c., Father, Creator,. Light, Life, Salvation and the like. 20, 2057. It has been rightly said that the name of the Lord was unpronounceable, because at that time the mystery of the Trinity was not revealed, only hinted at. 4, 496. The Scripture does not say that God's name is inexpressible, but God's essence, wisdom, power, 'goodness 2c. that not the letters, but what is meant by them, is inexpressible. 20, 2058. The name of the Lord is a good rumor, praise, glory, praise and proclamation of God. 4, 498. The name of God is mercy, truth, justice, power, wisdom, and the accusing of one's own name. 8, 1433. all virtues names find God's name, as, just, pure, true, simple, bad, wise 2c. 7, 763. We believe, preach and confess that the person called Jesus Christ is, according to his name, the only Savior of the world, who saves from sins 2c. 9, 1267. The "name of the Lord" is properly applied to Christ. 1, 399. 1, 399. Nowhere can you see the name of the Lord more clearly than in Christ; there you will see how good, lovely, faithful, just and true God is 2c. 8, 1434. Men have nothing more precious on earth than the name of the Lord, for this they praise before men as only mighty, wise, holy 2c. 4, 615 f. In the first petition, "thy name" means as much as God's honor or praise. 7, 771. The name of God is rightly led when the word of God is rightly preached and the hearers rightly accept it. 3, 1076. God's name is sanctified when we separate ourselves from that which is unholy, for Christians are called
holy and righteous children of God; this they have from God. 12, 1757. God's name is profaned when we use it indecently, namely when we live shamefully and indecently, since His name has been invoked over us. 12, 1755. The name of God is blasphemed when preachers do not preach rightly, but deceive the people under the appearance of the divine word and name. 3, 1076 f. When one preaches, teaches and speaks under God's name, which is nevertheless false and seductive, this is the greatest shame and dishonor of His name. 10, 108. Most of all, the abuse of God's name goes into spiritual matters that afflict the conscience, when false preachers offer their lies for God's word. 10, 41. God's name is profaned when it is used for sorcery, blessing, lying, swearing, cursing, deceiving. 7, 762. To misuse God's name is either to misuse it for lying, or for cursing, swearing, conjuring, and summa to any wickedness. 10, 42 f. This means to take God's name in vain, when one calls God the Lord, in whatever way it may be done, to lie or to do all kinds of evil. 10, 41: Lying and deceiving is a great sin in itself, but it becomes much more serious when one wants to justify it and uses God's name to confirm it. 10, 41 f. The misuse of God's name is the highest sin that can happen outwardly. 10, 41. It is commanded to use God's name for truth and all good, as, if one swears rightly 2c., also as one teaches rightly, when one calls upon Him, gives thanks and praises. 10, 43. If the name of God is already honored with the mouth, genuflections 2c., it is only gleissnerei, if such reverence is not done in the heart by faith. 3, 1078. It is a twofold necessity or benefit, for which one should use God's name, namely our blessedness and the glory of God. 3, 1194. Unless our name becomes nothing in our own eyes and in the eyes of all men, the name of the Lord cannot be great and high to us. 4, 616 f. Then the name of the Lord is glorified, exalted and loved, when our name is brought to nothing and hated, both by us and by men. 4, 611. The name of God is not sanctified or profaned with the mouth alone, but also with all the limbs of the body and soul. 7, 764. God considers only those good who sincerely confess that they dishonor God's name and constantly desire that it be sanctified. 7, 771. Every man is found to be a blasphemer of the divine name, though the trustworthy saints do not want to believe it. 7, 768. Just as it is impossible that the name of the
It is impossible for him who clings to him and endures to fall, because he is eternal and almighty. 4, 1190. Those who are baptized in God's name are consecrated and sanctified by baptism, are called God's children and are to be kind, merciful, chaste, righteous, truthful, simple 2c. 7, 763. After the heart has been justified by faith based on God's name, God gives them power to become God's children. 8, 1434. To those who believe in the name of the Lord, all sins are forgiven, and righteousness is imputed to them because of the name of the Lord. 8, 1434. Just as the name of the Lord is pure, holy, righteous, true, good, 2c., so it makes the heart thoroughly like Himself, which is done through faith. 8, 1434. The heart and the name of the Lord are related by faith. 8, 1433. He is not a bad doctor of the Scriptures who can rightly call the name of Jesus, even if he has not written or read many books. 9, 1267. God's name is given to us because we have become Christians and have been baptized, so that we are called God's children, and have the sacraments by which he incorporates us with him. 10, 107. We should always bear the holy name of God in our mouths to harm the devil, so that he cannot sound as he would like. 10, 44. Luther says: "I have tried it myself and have experienced that often sudden great accidents have turned and gone away just by calling on the name of God. 10, 44. God's name is most desecrated by those who live holy lives, but are proud in their hearts to think themselves righteous and holy, since God alone is righteous and holy. 12, 1755. God's essence is in heaven, but his name is also on earth; therefore his name is sanctified, but not his essence, which rather sanctifies everything. 12, 1755. Whoever wants to have forgiveness of sins and a clear conscience must seek it in the name of Jesus and refresh himself in this name. 13, 2072. It grieves the pope and all human reason that all other names should be cut off, and that salvation should be placed in the name of Jesus alone. 13, 2072. It is very comforting to know that one is baptized, not by a man, but by the Trinity itself through a man who does the work in the name of the Trinity. 19, 60. The words: "I baptize you in the name of the Father" 2c. indicate that the work itself, as a foreign one, is done instead of and in the name of God. 19, 60. This is the way of the Jews: With the mouth they honor the letters of the name of God, and with the heart they defile and blaspheme God. 20, 2060.
Nannes. Luther's epilogue to the treatise of John Nannis of Viterbo on the rule of the pope. 18, 456. From the writing of Nannis you will come to know that the pope, the son of the liar, the devil, must not be believed even in one syllable. 18, 461.
Naphtali. Naphthali means reversed or changed. 3, 471.
Narrentheiding. Narrentheiding are the fables and fairy tales and other gossip, such as the Pfaff von Kalenberg, Dietrich von Bern 2c. 12, 454 f. Narrentheidinge are all useless fables, in which no instruction and knowledge is contained. 3, 1304. To the Narrentheidingen belong the Altweibermärlein and the läppischen Posien, the histories of the priest of Kalenberg, Dietrich von Bern 2c. 3, 1304. To the Narrentheidingen belong the Meinun-.
The most important of these are the philosophers' poems, the glosses on Aristotle and the chatter about dialectics, and the dreams of the astrologers. 3, 1304. Among the Narrentheidingen are the legends of the saints and the great swarm of lies about miraculous signs, pilgrimages, masses, saint service, indulgences 2c. 12, 455. Narrentheiding is that one has mixed a foolish, ridiculous gossip with the sermon on Easter, as one has cradled the child at Christmas 2c. 12, 455.
Nazirites. The Nazirites had their special ceremonies, did not drink wine or anything that made them drunk, nor did they shave their heads. 2, 2052. Some were Nazarites for a time, according to their pleasure, others had a vow that lasted for as long as they lived, like Samson. 2, 2053. Nazirites have been fleshly saints, holy prophets, ordained to govern the people. 3, 642.
Nathan. Through Nathan, God says to David: "I will place your son in my kingdom forever"; Isaiah was especially moved by the word "eternal kingdom" and felt that this is spoken of a man who must be God on high. 3, 1904.
Nathanael. Nathanael is a true Israelite, who has the promise and faith of Abraham, and believes in the prophets' teaching without falsehood and simple-mindedness. 7, 1758. Nathanael is praised and preached higher than the other apostles and yet does not become an apostle. 7, 1745.
National Council. Another much more vehement and threatening letter from the pope to the emperor concerning the promise of a national council. 17, 1012 ff.
Nativity. When his nativity, Cicero's and many others were printed at Nuremberg, Luther said: "I do not think anything of them, nor do I agree with them. 22, 1548.
Nature. God did not reveal all nature, but the lesser part; hence the study and research of nature has arisen. 11, 301. The farmers also testify that nature generally grows old and does not produce as much as in earlier years. 2, 1740. After the Fall, the whole of nature took on a completely new form of all things, first through sin, then through the general flood. 1, 121. Nature demands that one day a week be kept quiet from work, both men and cattle. 3, 1084.
Natures in Christ. Christ is one, undivided person, and yet has two natures, divine and human with body.
Natural Law. Where Mosi's law and natural law are one thing, the law remains and is not abrogated externally without being abrogated spiritually through faith 2c. 20, 152. The natural law cannot be separated from the divine law.
Natural history. Some interpreters think that Solomon rejects natural history, astronomy and the studies of the whole philosophy as useless gadgets 2c. 5, 1379.
natural. The Ten Commandments are taught because the natural laws are nowhere so finely and neatly written as in Genesis 20:153.
Naumburg. The people of Naumburg and Zeitz already received the Gospel through their sovereign at the time of Bishop Philip, against the will of the chapter. 17, 95. After the chapter of Naumburg had chosen a bishop, they reported it to the sovereign, but did not name the person, and nevertheless asked for protection for their bishop. 17, 98. The canons of Naumburg knew that they had chosen such a bishop, who was not to the liking of the monastery or church, nor of the sovereign. 17, 98. Since the sovereign demanded of the chapter of Naumburg that they elect another, Christian bishop, they refused to do so, and have themselves renounced their election. 17, 100. The Elector and the Duke of Saxony, as patrons of the Naumburg chapter, had to maintain the churches of the chapter in the holy Gospel and the known truth. 17, 113. The bishops of Naumburg and Zeitz together with their cathedral chapters have always stood by the princes of Saxony as their sovereigns and patrons. 17, 120 f. The Bishops of Naumburg and their cathedral chapters have since time immemorial attended or sent to the Diet of the Princes of Saxony at their request. 17, 121. Since the bishops of Naumburg have at times wanted to be forced by penal mandates to control 2c., they have asked the sovereigns to excuse them to the emperor. 17, 121 The bishops of Naumburg have enforced what was decided at the Diet of the Princes of Saxony with the help of their subjects and their monasteries, taxes 2c. 17, 121. The bishops of Naumburg have been summoned by the princes and princes of Saxony at all imperial congresses, for a period of time that has lapsed, in the imperial courts. 17, 121. If one of the bishops of Naumburg died, the cathedral chapters kept their election in such a way that they notified the sovereign of the death and the future election. 17, 122. In 1517, the cathedral chapter of Naumburg nominated Vincenz von Schleinitz as bishop, but because of Elector Frederick, elected Duke Philip of Bavaria. 17, 123. None of the bishops of Naumburg, nor their ambassadors, have been nominated in living memory.
or within the statute of limitations at imperial congresses, much less have they had any standing or session in the empire. 17, 127. The Elector of Saxony has not desired more from the bishopric of Naumburg than that a Christian and peace-loving, also God-fearing bishop be there. 17, 130. That the bishops of Naumburg and their chapters recognized the princes of Saxony as their sovereigns is evident from the Protective Deeds 2c. 17, 133. Luther's writing: "Exempel, einen rechten christlichen Bischof zu Weihen. Done at Naumburg in 1542." 17, 88. The Elector reminds Luther and Melanchthon that they promised to have "the Naumburg action" brought to light by a print 2c. 21b, 2713.
Nazarene. The Nazarenes had a peculiar worship service not unlike that of the monks. 4, 2134.
Nazarene. Some vowed not to drink wine for fourteen days or four weeks or half a year; they were called Nazarenes. 7, 1507.
Nazarenus. Christ seems to be called Nazarenus from the Hebrew, which means chosen, set apart, sanctified, consecrated with a new crown. 22, 1944.
Nebuchadnezzar. The king Nebuchadnezzar has a glorious testimony in the Scriptures, as Darius and Cyrus also, that he knew God, and yet he was uncircumcised. 1, 1023. In Nebucadnezzar, Alexander and Augustus, very good and understanding rulers, are found exceedingly great infirmities. 5, 396.
Neidhart. Enidhart cannot prove his evil treachery at court; he must first slander, and then scratch and suppress the innocent. 5, 868.
Nephews. Nephews - grandchildren (nepotes). 3, 621.
Nemesis. The pagans gave Nemesis or Adrastia as an undesirable companion to "those" who did not know how to keep a measure in well-being. 6, 1344.
Neobulus. Luther assures the Landgrave of Hesse that he has no ill will against him, but that he is only disgusted by the book of Huldrich Neobulus. 21b, 2746 f.
Nero. Nero, Heliogabal and Commodus became princes and emperors under great expectations, but they deceived the hope and expectation of all. 5, 1451. The emperor Nero, as an enemy of the kingdom of Christ, had the supreme princes of this kingdom, St. Peter and Paul, executed as if they were enemies of his temporal kingdom. 5, 853. At the court of Nero, Processus, Martinianus and others came to faith, who also went to death for the sake of Christ; this is God's work. 5, 459.
Nesen. Luther asks Joh. Lang to help Justus Jonas in his affairs; he reports Wilhelm Nesen's death to him. 21a, 633.
Nestorians. The Nestorians said that Mary was not a mother of God, but only of the man JEsu, who was only naturally her son. 7, 1905. The Nestorians did not want to call Mary God's mother and did not want to say that she gave birth to God's Son. 8, 385. The nonsensical teachings of the Nestorians and Schwenkfelds tear the person of Christ apart and make two sons. 6, 665.
Nestorius. Nestorius made two persons out of Christ, and one person out of each nature. 3, 667. Nestorius set two different sons, or Christ's, one God's, the other Mary's son. 3, 667. Against Nestorius the Concilium at Ephesus is held in the year 431. 3, 667. The two heretics Nestorius and Eutyches have fooled that Christ is man and God in two persons, not in one. One person. 3, 660. Nestorius taught that God or God's Son, Jesus Christ, was not born of Mary the Virgin, because God was a spirit that could not be born, but only man. 3, 667. Nestorius separates mankind from the Godhead, and makes a special person out of every nature, that only man, especially, is crucified. 3, 1962. Nestorius' false doctrine says that God did not become man, but that God remains for himself, a separate person from man, and again. 3, 1961. Nestorius makes of any nature for itself a separate person, and two separate sons. 3, 1961. Nestorius makes of Christ two persons, that another person is born and crucified, and another person is born and crucified.
new. God creates by his works and gifts many and great and always new things. 5, 1393. All men have the same tratten, and you will not find one who would have been minded in a new way. 5, 1393. Nothing new happens under the sun, because the old Adam is the same in all. 5, 1393. Where the whole man does not become new, no work is valid or helpful, and man cannot see God's kingdom, but must remain condemned under sin and eternal death. 11, 1167. The first of January is called the new year's day according to the Romans; we Christians begin the new year on Christ Day. 13, 1528.
Neuenaar. The Elector asks Luthern to take care of the preacher of the Count of Neuenaar during his stay in Wittenberg. 21b, 2050.
Neuendorf. Luther uses the name Hans Neuendorf. 21a, 420.
Neuenhagen. Luther's letter to Thomas Neuenhagen, preacher at Eisenach. 19, 1018 f.
newborn. A newborn person drives away sin, death, the devil, the world and all misfortune through faith in the exalted Christ. 13, 2125. A newborn man does good works, is obedient to God, is diligent and faithful in his profession, loves his neighbor, helps and serves him 2c. 13, 2125.
New Year's Day. From the Romans we have New Year's Day, the whole art of jurisprudence, the horologium or pointer, and the names of the days of the week. 13, 1528.
Nicaea. The Concilium of Nicaea met to preserve the ancient article of faith, that Christ is true and real God, against the new cleverness of the
Nothing. God created heaven and earth from nothing. 1, 12. Whoever is not yet nothing, God can also make nothing out of him. 4, 1692.
Niederland, Georg. Luther asks the Elector for a scholarship for Georg Niederland. 21b, 2302.
Nobody. No one, the rogue, is the one who both confuses and ruins everything in the house and world regiment. 2, 1099.
Niemeck. Prince John asks Luther to suggest a pastor who is suitable for Niemeck. 21a, 802. Luther proposes M. Georg Wesel [Witzel von Vach] for the parish of Niemeck. 21a, 805 f.
Nile. The Nile is said to emerge in the middle of summer, around the time of the solstice, when the sun passes through the signs of Cancer, Leo and Virgo. 2, 1701.
Nimpschen. Nine nuns who had escaped from the convent at Nimpschen were taken in by Luther at Wittenberg. 15, 2620. Luther gives the names of the virgins who escaped from the convent at Nimpschen. 19, 1675. Luther, through Spalatin, refuted the
Nimrod. The name Nimrod comes from derogatory, renegade, being contrary. Therefore, he was either the first Turk or the first Pabst in the world after the Flood. 1, 668 f. Nimrod has arrogated to himself with the sword and violence of the title and name that he wanted to be a mighty hunter before God, that is, a lord in the church. 1, 670. Nimrod has had a beautiful appearance, but in truth he is an apostate and tyrant, a ravager of the human race, a persecutor of the holy people. 1, 670 f. Nimrod did not hunt and persecute wild animals, but people, especially those who ruled the church with doctrine. 1, 671. Nimrod is an example of all world princes. 3, 193. Nimrod built Babylon. 3, 193. Nimrod is called a hunter because he became a lord by force. 3, 192. Nimrod is a father of all who rule in the world by force. 3, 192. Nimrod was a mighty persecutor of the saints of God, an enemy of the word and the church. 1, 672.
Nineveh. Nineveh means in Hebrew the beautiful or pretty, as a pretty, well-built city is beautiful. 14, 904. Luther thinks that the city of Nineveh was hardly as big as Cologne or Erfurt. 14, 932. It is also said of Nineveh that it was divided into four circles or cities. 1, 674. Nineveh is not called a city of God because God built it, because Assyria built it, but because God cared for it, took care of it 2c. 14, 933. Nineveh is called a city of God because it had the right religion and was preserved by God for the sake of the pious man Assur. 1, 675.
Ninivites. Jonah describes that the Ninivites became righteous first, and because their faith is pleasing, their works are also pleasing. 14, 963. The sacks and fasting of the Ninivites would have been nothing, but God saw their faith. First they believe, then they do the works. 14, 963. The Ninivites, seeing that God was reconciled, returned to their former life by postponing the threatened punishment. 14, 1377. The works did not produce faith among the Ninivites, but faith produced the works. Therefore, the passage Jonah 3, 5. does not serve against us, but for us. 14, 935.
Noah. Noah means rest. Lamech gives him this name, because he hopes that through him
The Lord is the one who will bring salvation from the curse of sin and from sin itself. 1, 431. Lamech was under the misapprehension that Noah is the promised seed, because his grandfather Enoch is moved into paradise without all pain, without sickness and death. 1, 429. God instructs Noah and tells him how he should build the box, so that he can believe all the stronger and more certain that God wants to preserve him and his people. 1, 513. From Noah's marriage state springs a new world and a new church; the same is as it were the nursery of the world, which is to last until the last world and the last judgment. 1, 502. Noah with his family has been in the box for a whole year. 3, 167. Noah has been in the ark for a whole year and ten days. 1, 565. Noah still lived through Abraham. 3, 209. Noah died in the fifty-eighth year after Abraham was born, so he was still Abraham's schoolmaster for about fifty years. 1, 655. Noah has seen his descendants until the tenth generation, because he died when Abraham was at fifty-eight years. 1, 710. Noah lived three hundred and fifty years after the flood. 1, 627. Noah suffered great trials of doubt about God's word. 3, 147. Noah stood in the highest battle for such a long time and did not waver. 3, 148. Noah preached daily and received scorn and mockery as a reward, so that his heart was well crucified. 3, 148. We see and experience how much anger, hatred and hostility a sermon arouses; what will Noah have to suffer who preached for centuries? 1, 501. Noah is called a preacher of righteousness by Peter. 3, 146. In Noah's time there were many learned, wise, pious, honorable people to whom he alone had to keep what God says. 3, 148. Noah was mocked by his contemporaries as a fool. 3, 146. All his friends left Noah, no one believed his sermon nor accepted it. 3, 145. It is a great example of faith that the eight people in Noah's ark certainly believe that they alone are right. 3, 146. Noah was a true miracle man, who alone set himself against the whole world and condemned all the others as evil people. 1, 500. Noah with his own is condemned as a rebel, heretic and slanderer of temporal and spiritual majesty, as we are by the pope and his bishops. 1, 479. Noah and his people had to cling to the mere word and fight against all senses and reason by faith alone. 3, 157. Noah was not allowed to go out of the box before God told him to, so that he could be sure of it.
Nuns. Nuns who enter a convent become not Christ's but the devil's brides. 3, 450. Those who make nuns believe that their status before God is better and more glorious than the conjugal status, and who invent special crowns, are mistaken. 8, 1040. A nun judges that her works are meritorious and serve to attain grace and eternal life, but a wife does not perform such works. 9, 673. The nuns in the monasteries were particularly damned people because of their hope, because they said: We are Christ's brides, other women are not. 13, 2305. The nuns in the monastery at Freiberg were forced by commandment to receive the sacrament twenty-four times a year 2c. 19, 1711. A nun would probably take a shepherd boy in marriage in her distress, which otherwise might hardly have taken a count. 19, 725. In a small town in Austria, the Neuburg convent, twelve large pots with children's corpses were found in the cellar after the nuns had vacated the convent. 1, 293. Sixteen nuns from the monastery of Widderstetten came under the Counts of Mansfeld. 21a, 520. Luther complains that Spalatin had sent off a poor woman recommended by him, and renews his request for support of the nine
Nunnery. There were seventy-seven people in the nunnery at Freiberg. 19, 1713. In the nunnery at Neuburg in Austria, twelve children's corpses were found in the earth in pots during Luther's time. 22, 1211.
Nonnus. Nonnus was a poet who paraphrased the Gospel of John in a Greek poem. 21b, 3216.
Nopus. Luther reports to the Regensburg council that he has persuaded M. Hieronymus Nopus to accept the appointment there. 21b, 2807 f. Johann Forster, who is temporarily in Regensburg, is to see to it that Hieronymus Nopus does not suffer any lack there. 21b, 2808.
Necessity. When we are in distress, we look only to the danger of the body, to food, drink, sickness, and whatever weights us down. 3, 1798. When you see a Christian in distress, know that Christ is in distress and in need of your help. 13, 2406 Everybody should take care of his neighbor's need. 3, 370. Do not consider God an enemy because he makes you suffer hardship, for you see that he does not exalt his only begotten Son to suffering. 13, 355. The afflictions that God puts on the godly or penitent for the sake of sin are also certain signs of God's grace and proper sacraments. 14, 1147. Affliction and anguish compel us to remain true Christians and keep us fine in Christianity. Therefore, tribulation and the cross are as necessary as life. 5, 1195. Christ makes you feel hardship, so that you also experience his help, mercy and salvation, and thus learn to believe and trust. 11, 1388. When Christians fall into distress, hunger and lack, it is only a humiliation and temptation that God sends. 3, 1811. God sends hardship to His own, not to destroy them, but to prove His grace and mercy. 3, 891. In times of need, God is with us. 3, 985 f. We should not bury our eyes in the present distress, but look at God's word and his previous miraculous signs. 3, 930. When the Israelites were in distress, they remembered how God had helped their forefathers out of Egypt. 3, 1801. The greater the distress, the more one should take hold of the promise in God's words and push it back into the face of the devil. 3, 1800 In danger and distress, we should beware of despair, but model ourselves on the examples of divine help and God's word. 3, 1800.
We should learn the art of calling on God in times of need and seeking help from him, as he has commanded us. 3, 1799: A man must be in distress, or he will think that faith is a delusion. 4, 1436. God wants you to present your distress to him; you should not let it lie on you and drag yourself with it, toil and torture yourself. 5, 1196. The Lord is pleased that one runs to him in distress, and is willing to listen and to help. 5, 1278. If we would give Christ our home, we would gain two things: a peaceful, calm heart and conscience, and comfort and help, as well as the best service. 11, 1387. If we would place our distress in Christ's counsel and power with strong trust and sure courage, we would be helped out of our distress and lack and our fearful trembling. 11, 1387. Just as you suffer anguish and distress with Christ, so also learn to pray with Him and do not doubt that God will graciously hear such prayer. 13, 355 f. In distress, one should run to God above all things and cry out and complain to him. For God cannot leave it alone; he must help the one who cries out and calls. 14, 876 f. We should flee to God and call upon him in all our troubles, for Scripture says that God is present with us and hears us even before we begin to cry out. 22, 90. If the emperor, father and mother, and other people do not want to or cannot help, then the Lord Jesus will be there and will also help His own in bodily distress. 13, 1543. Also in bodily distress the Lord Jesus will be there and help His own; but this is not His special and primary office. 2c. 13, 116. If the devil forces me from my words in times of need, he has already won and makes me either despair or seek help elsewhere than from God. 3, 1798 This is the devil's art, that he paints the weakness and need before our eyes so great that we forget God's word and command. 3, 1799 Love and need master all laws, and no law should be, it should be directed and bent according to love. 11, 1685. There is no better mirror in which you can see your need than the ten commandments, in which you find what you need and should seek it. 10, 1341. The trouble that has come to Miltenberg and her peers in German lands is that the evil mouths and false tongues do not want to suffer God's word. 5, 1279.
Necessity. Poor people, who have to eat and drink what they have, stay fresh and healthy and live for many years. 13, 789. Lords, princes, countries, cities and all in general should do their part and cultivate God's house and kingdom a little for necessity. 11, 1377.
nöthigen. To incite means to scare with sin, not as the pope incites with the ban. He does not scare the conscience, because he does not teach what real sins are. 13, 722.
Necessity. The other main part of Christian doctrine is to know whether God foreknows something in such a way that it may or may not happen, and whether we do everything out of necessity. 18, 1689 f. We must not only be certain that God will and will bring about things by necessity and in an unchangeable way, but also boast of it. 18, 1696. Rom. 9, 16. ff. was asked in the question about the will of God whether he imparts necessity to our will. Paul answers that it is so. 18, 1846 The question whether divine foreknowledge imposes a necessity on us is difficult, indeed impossible, if one wants to establish both the foreknowledge of God and the freedom of man at the same time. 18, 1847 f. That the living and true God must be of such a nature that he must impose necessity on us through his freedom is something that even natural reason must admit. 18, 1849 We speak of necessity, according to which something infallibly occurs, not of necessity, which compels by force. 18, 1853 With us everything happens by necessity, according to the fact that God either loves or does not love from eternity. 18, 1860.
Novatians. The Novatians and many other sects, like the Donatists, left the Church because they did not want to suffer the wicked. 7, 188. The Novatians said that the fallen had no hope of forgiveness of sins after baptism. Thus they took away the keys from the church altogether. 7, 295. Many fine bishops, and especially the Novatians, took offense at the fact that one should forgive the brother without stopping, as often as he desired it. 7, 954 f. One has done right and just that one has condemned the Novatians, since they have only brought to despair from the certainty of the keys. 7, 958.
Novatus. Novatus, a Roman canon, taught: If a person falls into mortal sin after baptism, the Church would not have
Nuremberg. Nuremberg shines throughout Germany like a sun among the moon and stars, and it moves other cities quite powerfully, which is going on there. 10, 418. Nuremberg is a rich and well-ordered city because it has good police; indeed, because it has good people. 22, 1619 In Nuremberg and other cities, the preachers were heard against each other, so that discord would be settled. 10, 1527 Luther testifies to his approval of the answer that the imperial estates gave to the papal envoy at the Diet of Nuremberg in 1523. 15, 2146. By decision of the Diet of Nuremberg in 1522, the emperor and the imperial estates ask the pope to leave the annals and other ecclesiastical revenues in Germany to fight the Turks and the Lutherans. 15, 2102 ff. The request of the papal orator to imprison some preachers in Nuremberg because they are said to have preached against the Christian faith is rejected by the imperial estates. 15, 2145. The so-called
"Nuremberg Edict of 1524. 15, 2291 ff. Documents belonging to the history of the Nuremberg Convention. 16, 577 ff. The protesting princes and estates' farewell to the action in Nuremberg. 16, 6. 10. Nuremberg's very first religious peace, Anno 1532. 16, 1821. Of the Nuremberg League, which is opposed to the Schmalkaldic League. 17, 1 ff. Order or constitution of the Nuremberg Catholic counterunion. 17, 8 ff. The members of the Nuremberg Confederation, by their defensive confederation, did not mean the Christian faith, but the lands of the Elector and Landgrave. 17, 1403. The clock at Nuremberg shows the hours in such a way that the first hour is after it has already been day for a whole hour. 12, 1818. The rumor has come to Luther that there is discord among the Nuremberg preachers; therefore he exhorts to vigilance 2c. 21a, 1721: Luther exhorted the Nuremberg clergy to be united, since a dispute had arisen among them over a general absolution to be read publicly from the pulpit. Osiander was against it. 21b, 1830 ff. The council of Nuremberg gives Luther a gift of one hundred Joachimsthalers. 21b, 1858. Luther asks the Wenc. Link to collect and send him all the German pictures, rhymes, songs, books and master songs published this year in Nuremberg. 21b, 2049.