watch. This is the right watch, watching in God's word, so that you may beat back the devil and his poisonous arrows and win, lest you sin. 8, 1216. Christ watches over you with greater care than you watch over yourself, and makes the plots of your enemies
Watching, that. Our watchfulness is so that sin may cease and righteousness arise, that faith and love may reign and unbelief be destroyed. 8, 1216. To watch belongs that one always drives God's word with earnestness, sings, says and reads, against the shameful stupidity and indolence. 8, 1217.
Wax candle. The papists should point out the dying and the child-worshippers to Jesus as the only consolation; such high work they want to perform with a consecrated wax candle. 13, 234.
Weapons. St. John the Baptist approves of the lawful use of weapons, which is either commanded or also permitted by the authorities. 14, 1068. The error of those must be punished who think that the lawful use of weapons is forbidden to Christians, as the Anabaptists do 2c. 14, 1067 f. Boys love deadly weapons; they should not be allowed to do so. 22, 1992. In this the apostle indicates all the weapons of light on one house, that he exhorts to clothe us in Christ. 12, 13. The weapons of the devil kill body and soul, but we make alive; many are converted by our writings and snatched from the devil. 5, 367.
Wagener. Luther asks for the chaplain Wolfgang Wagener, that he may get his clearance from the monastery Mühlpfort. 2tb, 2289.
Waldensians. The Waldensians in Bohemia have so imprisoned their faith in their own language that they cannot speak intelligibly and clearly to anyone unless he learns their language. 10, 228. The Waldensians may live and teach holy by themselves, but because they remain without languages, they will have to lack that they do not act the Scriptures confidently and thoroughly. 10, 475. Some, like the Waldensian brethren, do not regard languages as useful. 10, 475. The Waldensians believe that infant baptism is useless, and yet baptize them, thereby mocking God and his word. 17, 2216. A fault of the Waldenses" is that they baptize the children on future faith, which they should learn when they come to their senses, not on the present. 19, 1333. Luther gives the Waldensians the testimony that they are much closer to the Gospel than all others known to him. 19, 1337. Luther hears that the Waldensians, by the grace of God, have a fine, chaste, outward manner. 19, 1337. Luther writes to Speratus that the questions of the Waldensians about external and non-essential things should be settled, and that he should demand faith and love.
21a, 423 f. Luther instructs the D. Major how to write to the pastor of Jáchymov about the Waldensians, who refer to Luther for the fact that the body of Christ is not really present in the Lord's Supper. 21b, 2588. Although the Waldensians do not know the actual difference of faith and works, they speak of it more skillfully than the papists. 22, 1049. Exact description of the doctrine and life of the Waldenses, who are right in many things; but the article of justification they do not have. 22, 1049. The Waldenses are sad and strict people, torment themselves only with the law, and do not treat the promises right. 22, 1050. Hennick, who was a Waldensian, said: I have often had such a sorrowful heart that I have cursed God that he made me a man and not an animal. 22, 1050. The Waldensians have whimsical opinions about the Holy Communion. 22, 1050. The Waldensians know nothing of the power of the word, that God is gracious even before our works, and gives us his word. 22, 1050 f.
Waldhausen. Luther recommends to the Duchess Elisabeth of Brunswick the 24th Justus Waldhausen, who has been appointed syndicus in Hameln. 21b, 2419.
Whales. The majority of the Papists, especially the Whales, believe nothing at all. 14, 302. The whales and Greeks laugh at the lie or make a joke of it. 5, 880. The whales see that the pope's court and nature are very annoying, and that the monks are unlearned and coarse asses, therefore they consider all religion to be a fair fable 2c. 22, 964. The whales are either superstitious or epicurious, for the least part of the whales believe in a resurrection of the dead. 22, 963. Although the Whales are obviously convicted by God's word, they are not comfortable with being reformed by the Germans because of their great hope. 22, 1363.
Walls. If God should decree that the Turk should attack us, the ramparts built at such great cost and labor will not protect us. 2, 932.
Whale fish. Moses calls whale fish all kinds of large and coarse fish in the sea. 1, 62. The whale fish, Behemoth and Leviathan are faded words and figures and pictures to indicate the devil. 22, 773 f.
Walther. Luther writes to the musician Johann Walther that he wants to use him and two other cantors whose cantor positions the Elector wants to abolish. 21a, 887. Luther sends the composer Johann Walther sheet music for the German Mass. 21a, 1045. Johann Walther in Torgau is to let himself be commanded by Luther's son Johannes in music. 21b, 2783.
Walzdorf. Luther rebukes the mayor of Arnstadt, Peter Walzdorf, who had called a petition by some citizens for their expelled preacher Mörlin seditious. 21b, 2948 f.
Wandel, M.. Luther asks Prince Johann von Anhalt if it would be acceptable to him that M. Wandel, who admittedly has a wife, comes to him to serve during the time of his death. 21b, 2284.
walk. To walk worthy of the Lord means to confess the faith with doctrine and life, as such people who are worthy of the Lord, and of whom the Lord may boast as His people. 12, 976.
Wankel. M. Matthias Wankel's letter to Prince George of Anhalt concerning Luther's sermon on the 8th Psalm. 5, 238. M. Matthias Wankel marries the first daughter of the priest's marriage according to the Gospel [the daughter of Bartholomäus Bernhardt in Kemberg]. 21b, 2471. Luther asks the princes of Anhalt for game for the wedding of M. Matthias Wankel. 21b, 2470 f.
warn. It is not enough to preach to Christians what they should believe and do, but they must also be warned against those who are repugnant to them, so that they do not lose their faith. 12, 1627.
Warning. The greatest warning in Scripture is to beware of false teaching. 3, 75. Warning of D. Luther to his dear Germans. 16, 1624.
Wartburg Castle. Elector Frederick of Saxony had Luther, who had been declared an Eight, picked up on his way back from Worms and brought to safety at Wartburg Castle. 15,
1940 Luther arrived at Wartburg Castle as a new horseman, tired by the long journey, at about eleven o'clock in the dark. 15, 2516. Luther took off his clothes at the Wartburg and put on riding clothes. He let his hair and beard grow. 15, 2513. Luther declares against Melanchthon that he went into custody at the Wartburg more out of obedience to the authorities than out of his own will. 15, 1941 Luther reports to Spalatin and Melanchthon that he is being kept too comfortable with food and drink at the Wartburg, which might have made him weak in body. 15, 1942: Luther suffers severely from abdominal pain at the Wartburg. 15, 2536. Luther complains to various friends how Satan plagues him with all kinds of temptations and terrors in his solitude at the Wartburg. 15, 1942 Luther is a hermit at the Wartburg, a recluse, and in truth a monk, but without plate and cap; one would see a knight in him and hardly recognize him. 15, 2546. From the Wartburg, Luther makes excursions into the surrounding area under the name "Junker Georg" accompanied by a horseman. 15, 1945. Luther would like to have the wit at whose expense he would be received at the Wartburg. 15, 2524. Luther learns Hebrew and Greek at the Wartburg, and writes without interruption. 15, 2527. Report on Luther's immense literary activity at the Wartburg. 15, 2518. Luther faithfully cared for the university at the Wartburg even during his absence from Wittenberg. 15, 1944: At the beginning of December 1521, Luther made a secret visit to Wittenberg from the Wartburg. 15, 1946 Luther is heartily tired of his banishment at the Wartburg, but puts it in God's will. 15, 2544. A scribe of Duke John wrote to a woman in Torgau that Luther was in the castle at Wartburg, so a rumor was spread everywhere. 15, 2539. Luther's stay at Wartburg is betrayed by a scribe of Duke John of Saxony. 15, 1947: The Elector tells Luther, when he wants to return from the Wartburg to Wittenberg, that he should not go there again for the time being. 15, 1987 Luther returns from the Wartburg to Wittenberg and delivers "eight sermons against D. Carlstadt's innovations. Summarium of the first five. 15, 1979 ff. Luther sends to Spalatin a fictitious letter that is to be used to deceive the people about his stay at the Wartburg. 21a, 356. Gerbe! asks Luthern, soon after his arrival
at the Wartburg, urgently to let him and his comrades know whether he is alive or captured 2c. 21a, 354 A letter from Luther: While people assume that he is at the Wartburg, he is safe in his place; no one thinks of Bohemia. 21a, 357. Luther suffers greatly from digestive problems at the Wartburg. 21a, 360. Luther complains that many evil and cunning devils watch him with temptations at the Wartburg. 21a, 364: There is a mass priest at Wartburg Castle who holds private masses every day; Luther wishes that the corner masses be put to an end. 21a, 363 f. Luther asks Spalatin's advice: He has decided to dedicate a booklet to his host at the Wartburg, but fears that this would betray the place of his stay. 21a, 385.
wait. We should wait for the body, but in such a way that it does not lust, but also not spoil it, and not choose the suffering itself. 9, 1241.
Waiting, that. Our life should be nothing else than a constant longing and waiting for the life to come, but in such a way that it is directed to the mercy of Christ, so that one calls upon Him 2c. 9, 1754. All the life that a believing Christian leads after baptism is nothing more than waiting for the revelation of the blessedness that he already has. 12, 136. 12, 136. The waiting and remaining life after baptism is so that God may mortify us through the body and prove the power of His grace in the battle against the flesh, the world and the devil. 12, 138.
Why? We should not ask why God creates this and that, but be obedient to him in what he commands us. 1, 1082. The question: "Why?" is a very harmful thought, and brings with it certain destruction, especially if we go too high and want to philosophize about the providence. 1, 1125. No one should add the harmful and shameful word "Why? to the commandments of God, but obey them immediately without any objection or argument. 1, 1127 If one wanted to summarize the whole teaching of the papists in one word, one would say that it is nothing other than the question: Why? f, 1127. Whoever disputes why God commands this or that, doubts whether God is wise, just and good, which is the most heinous sin. 1, 1127. If someone asks why God gives so much room to the wicked and lets them rage so long, it is enough in this answer that it pleases him so 2c. 1, 1128. Beware of the question: Why (quare) does God do this? or you will fall down the neck. 7, 1268. We are foolish and foolish with the why, want to dispute in the things,
which one alone is to believe. 7, 1875. When one comes to the question: why God commanded this or that, the devil has already won, as can be seen in Eve in paradise. 13, 106. We should not ask our Lord God, "Why are you doing this? We should do what we are commanded to do and not ask afterwards, "Why?" 22:188. God wants us to fear Him and do what He has commanded with a trembling and bruised heart and spirit, and not ask further, "Why?" 22:1061 ff.
Water. The water not only tears down everything in a heap, uproots trees, but also takes much from the earth and changes the soil. 1, 512. If one is deprived of water, it is just as much as if one deprives him of life, because both men and cattle must die from it. 2, 196. Luther said: Dear God, what a noble juice you have given in the dear water, which surpasses all wines; yet we regard the water as nothing, which nevertheless cools and refreshes so sweetly. 22, 1744. If water were alone, without spirit, it would be and do nothing more than other water and bath, and no new birth would come from it. 11, 1175. Christ arranges the words in such a way that he puts the water first, then the spirit, to show that one should not seek the spirit without and apart from the outward sign. 11, 1175. Although the water does not create anything without the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit does not want to have its effect in us without the water. 13, 687. 13, 687. The water in baptism is in its substance nothing better than that which the cow drinks, but a divine promise is attached to this bad water. 1, 279. It is an ungodly speech to say that the water of baptism is only water, since it has the word with it. 4, 1821. Only the godly see the word in the water of baptism; a cow or a dog sees only water. 4, 1821. To the water of Holy Baptism is added the Word and the Holy Spirit, who purifies the heart through faith, so that impurity cannot condemn us. 6, 1639 f. Luther's writing "on the consecrated water and the Pabst's Agnus Dei". 19, 1018 ff.
watering. Of God's special gift of watering and drenching the land. 5, 650.
who was twelve years old, had his eyes and all his senses 2c. 22, 756. A changeling is also called a goitre, because it always keels in the goitre. 22, 757. Luther completely holds that changelings are only a piece of flesh, since there is no soul inside, because the devil could make such a thing good. 2c. 22, 757. Luther said: one should also baptize such changelings, because they are not known soon in the first year, but only by the fact that they suck their mothers so. 22, 758. Tale of a changeling who was thrown into the river by a man, and there played with the devil. 22, 757 f.
Wedde. Luther recommends Johann Wedde to King Gustav I of Sweden. 21b, 2654.
Woe. Woe means the eternal, hellish fire; here the pope and cardinals cannot be punished sufficiently, because their sin is too great. 7, 1157.
Wistful mother. It behooves the mothers of sorrow to be courageous and to present themselves outwardly as if they had good hope, and to comfort the poor mothers in their work 2c. 2, 1217. The Egyptian mothers of sorrow feared God more than their king. 3, 686. That the wombs tell a lie to the king, that belongs under the forgiveness of sins. 3, 687. The Egyptian mothers of sorrow want to ward off the murderer devil with their lie. 3, 688.
Wehren. If you let yourself be lured out of your defense, God's word, and dispute with the devil, he will finally drive you in and make you insane 2c. 9, 828. Christians have two kinds of defense and weapons, so that the devil is defeated, diligently hear God's word, and when the temptation comes, cry out to God for help. 12, 595.
Woman. That the pagans call a woman an evil or a plague comes from the fact that the devil has distorted, maddened and corrupted nature. 1, 82. 1, 82. The woman should not be excluded from any honor of human nature, whether she is a weaker vessel than the man. 1, 84. If the woman had not been deceived, she would have been equal to Adam in all respects, because that she must be subject to the man is a punishment of sin. 1, 141. God imposes a punishment on the woman, but nevertheless leaves the hope of the resurrection and eternal life. 1, 243. Of the many sufferings of women during the time of pregnancy. 1, 245 f. The woman, when she frees, loses the name of her sex and friendship and is called after the man. 1, 268 f. The woman must follow the man when he moves from one place to another. 1, 269 As far as women's manners and behavior are concerned, they have a bad name because of their frivolity, gossip and forwardness. 1, 1160. If anyone desires to have a pious wife, let him call upon God, and he will hear him and give him one who is suitable, honest and pious. 1, 1707. The devil suppresses the good in women with abusive words, and uses to sweep out the evil and to make wise. 1, 1731. The infirmities of women should be covered up with the good and the benefit they bring. 1, 1732. woman is a mother of all men; with this the married state is adorned, which otherwise the whole world despises and scolds, as can be seen in Juvenal and Martial. 1, 1733. A pious wife is not obtained by chance and without divine providence, but it is a gift of God, does not come from our own counsel and will. 2, 22. I am not worthy to have a wife and children according to the nature and the things in
Womenfolk. The poor people of women have nothing more precious or noble than honor.
Woman's seed. This is a comfort that Adam and Eve are placed in a battle against Satan, and that with the hope of help that God would do in the seed of the woman. 1, 232 All Latin Bibles, Lyra and the newer teachers, by distorting the text, have drawn the seed of the woman to the Virgin Mary. 1, 234 The promise of the seed of the woman was first made in general, then limited by Abraham to the people of Israel, and by Jacob to the tribe of Judah. 1, 238. How the devil does not rest from his cruelty, hatred and enmity against the seed of the woman. 1, 239. The promise of the seed of the woman is quite general, but it is only said of one, the son of Mary, who is a mother without union with a man. 1, 239. The female seed is a natural child, born of a woman. 3, 84. In the saying of the woman's seed, everything is included that the holy Christian faith holds in itself. 3, 84. The female seed should take all the power of the devil and trample it. 3, 84. The seed of the woman is Jesus Christ, a natural child born of woman, who crushed the head of the serpent. 3, 91. The seed of the woman, attacked by the devil, could not be defeated, because he was God. 3, 91. That the woman seed would crush the head of the serpent was the gospel of Adam and his own. 3, 107. The seed of the woman is the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, who shall become man. 3, 652. The Hebrew language calls the children born of women woman's seed. 3, 653. In German, Weibes-Samen is: a natural child of a woman, or of a woman. 3, 653. The seed of the woman, Christ, shall not cut off a piece of the tail of the devil or serpent, but shall crush the head. 3, 655. The seed of the woman, Christ, is not only a bad natural man, but also eternal almighty God and creator. 3, 657. The seed of the woman shall be a man, but he must also be God, for he shall put away death and the slayer of death, sin and God's wrath, and restore righteousness and life. 3, 1936 f. Adam and Eve also had such a mind, that the seed of the woman must be God. 3, 1937. In the first year of the world, grace is promised against sin, life against death, the Holy Spirit against the devil through the seed of the woman. 14, 495. The Turks and other nations believe in vain in God, the Creator of the world, because they do not know that he is the Promiser and Giver of the woman's seed. 19, 1469.
Weigher. Luther recommends his table companion Martin Weigher to Veit Dietrich; likewise to Wenc. Link and Hieronymus Baumgärtner. 21b, 2636. 2637. 2638.
Whom. Worn-out and old people are more easily overcome by wine than those who are still strong, young, without worries and of free spirit. 1, 629. Among all fruits, wine is the most noble in the whole world, which refreshes and delights the heart of man. 2, 1979. In Luther's time, water was poured into wine on the altar. 8, 1605. The wine and the women bring some into misery and heartache, but therefore we do not want to throw away the wine and kill the women. 20, 30. Diseases come from the fact that we abuse wine for our feasting: Leprosy, stone, podagra, chiragra. 22, 1672.
wise. The wiser a man is, the less he accomplishes what he wants, and the more foolish and unfortunate he is. 4, 1951. The conceit that one is wise is the most harmful vice, by which hearts are prevented from accepting punishment or mending. 6, 56. Wise are those who are taught by the prophets; they were disciples of those who received it from the Lord. 7, 1244. This is how it always happens on earth, that the wisest, most learned and holiest in Christ and his gospel become vain devils. 8, 927.
Wise men. The wise are those who have their preaching not only from God, but through Scripture and men, and are the disciples and followers of the prophets. 11, 206. The knowledge of God and Christ, the Father and the Son, is that which is hidden from the wise and the saints. 12, 1764. The knowledge of God and of Christ, of the Father and of the Son, are the hidden things in which especially the wise and the saints take offense. 19, 756. Cicero, in his book De Senectute, calls those wise men, who are not able to understand reason, as the
Wisdom. We cannot reach the thousandth part of the wisdom that Adam had in paradise. 1, 128. The countless books of theologians, lawyers and physicians can hardly be called a pittance of wisdom compared to the wisdom of Adam and Eve. 1, 129. Everyone should learn to recognize his weakness and inability and ask God for wisdom and counsel. 2, 277. Solomon in his Proverbs undoubtedly calls wisdom the son in the divine being. 2, 1296. Human and divine wisdom run against each other, and human wisdom must lie below. 3, 684. Wisdom belongs to the knowledge of things, understanding to judgment. 3, 1415. Wisdom and understanding of God's people does not consist in the subtle researches of the sophists 2c., but in the knowledge and observation of the law of God. 3, 1415. Wisdom is a common knowledge of what is right, how one should govern; prudence is not being taken in by emotions. 3, 1654. All from elsewhere
Wisdom of Solomon. Although the Book of the Wisdom of Solomon has been previously translated by others, I think that this German should suffer our German well next to it, or even need it. 14, 72. The ancient fathers separated the Book of Wisdom from the holy Scriptures and considered it to be made under the person of King Solomon, so that it would be respected even more. 14, 72. The ancient fathers consider Philo to be the master of the Book of Wisdom, who was undoubtedly one of the most learned and wise of the Jews. 14, 72. The Book of Wisdom flowed from the cause that Philo, because his and the Jews' cause and right could not be found before the emperor, turned to God. 2c. 14, 73. In the Book of Wisdom Philo speaks sharply and vehemently against the evil tongues that persecute and kill the innocent for the sake of truth, and introduces the examples of divine judgment 2c. 14, 73. 14, 73. the book of wisdom is held in such high and beautiful esteem in the Roman church that hardly any book in Scripture has been made into so much song as this one. 14, 74. much of the book of wisdom has not been understood and has often been pulled by the hair to condemn tyrants and to comfort the saints 2c. 14, 74 There is much good in the Book of Wisdom, and well worth reading. 14, 74. The Book of Wisdom does not come to light unevenly in our time, because now even the tyrants confidently abuse their authority against the one from whom they have authority. 14, 74. the book of wisdom is a correct interpretation of the first commandment, because through and through it teaches to fear and trust God 2c. 14, 75. Because this
If the name of the book is called the Wisdom of Solomon, it is the same as saying: A Book of Solomon of the Word of God, and the "spirit of wisdom" is the faith of this word. 14, 75. In the Book of Wisdom, "wisdom" does not mean the clever, high thoughts of pagan teachers and human reason, but the holy, divine word. 14, 75. Luther translated the Book of Wisdom, which will soon go out in a better form than it is in the Latin and Greek originals. 21a, 1310.
White. Luther writes to George White that he has little hope for a successful campaign against the Turks. 21b. 2635.
Weiter, Hieronymus. Luther comforts Hieronymus Weiter in his melancholy. 21a. 1487 ff. Luther again comforts Hieronymus Weiler in his melancholy. 21a, 1532 ff. Luther repeatedly consoles Hieronymus Weiler against the spirit of sadness. 21a, 1543. Luther advises Hieronymus Weiler to accept a job in Dresden. 21a, 1566. Luther asks Justus Menius to promote the payment of the income of a certain benefice to Hieronymus Weiler. 21b, 1893. Luther sends the letter of the Elector to Justus Menius, to confirm the gift of grace to Hieronymus Weiler. 21b, 1902. Luther thanks the council of Freiberg for the honor given to Hieronymus Weiler in his hometown. 21b, 1974. Luther and his colleagues propose Hieronymus Weiler or Michael Cölius as preacher for Naumburg to the Elector. 21b, 2052 f. Luther asks the Elector to give Hieronymus Weiler the income of the Wartburg estate. 21b, 2054 Luther advises Hieronymus Weiler to have the celebration of his wedding in Freiberg, because it would cause too much trouble in Wittenberg. 21b, 2085 f. Luther writes to Hieronymus Weiler about his wedding: "With a hundred florins you can hardly arrange it." 21b, 2090 f. Luther writes to Hieronymus Weiler about the filling of the superintendency at Freiberg after M. Nic. Hausmann's death. 21b, 2294 f.
Weller, Peter. Luther thanks Peter Weller for moving into Luther's house with his brother Jerome during Luther's absence in Coburg. 21a, 1490. Luther asks the Wenc. Link that he would kindly receive Peter Weller and Heinrich Schneidewein on their passage to Italy. 21b, 1921.
Welsh. It is as he said in jest, but still with truth: The Welsh and the French write differently than they speak, and speak differently than they mean. 14, 730. - See Walen.
Welsh country. Welschland has learned from the Greeks that they promise and swear what one wants, and then mock when they have to keep it. 5, 880. Because lies and infidelity prevail in the Welsh country, there is such shameful division, discord and misfortune. 5, 881. It has already begun in Welsh-speaking countries, in Rome and other places, that people have made a mockery of the faith and no longer baptize their children. 6, 934. It is now in Welschland with reasonable people an honor, if one lets it remain with the simple fornication. 7, 441 f. In Rome and in Welsh this saying, 2 Petr. 3, 4. 5, has long been fulfilled, and those who come out also bring out such delusion. 9, 1390.
World. The world had a beginning and was created by God from nothing. 1, 5, Different opinions about the beginning of the world. 1, 5 f. The world, when it was created, was nothing but a rough, misshapen lump of earth and water. 1, 41. The apostle calls the world a wicked world, because everything in this world is subject to the wickedness of the devil, who rules in the world that is the devil's kingdom. Because the world knows nothing of God, it is full of hatred, lies, error, blasphemy and contempt against God, and also full of gross sins. 2c. 9, 66. In the beginning the world was pure and innocent, therefore man was pure, innocent and without sin in it. 1, 94. As the first world has passed away, so also the histories of the same have perished, and we have nothing more of the same but the names. 1, 416. The first world is the best and holiest, after the flood of sin there were also some glorious and great men, but our time, after Christ came, is the basic soup of the world. 1, 431 f. The world is disgusted with God's word, and what is new, it falls for and considers it right. 1, 727. The world, because of its unbelief, attacks the marriage state in such a way that nothing good follows. 3, 51. The world wants to make pious with laws and rule the consciences through them. 3, 65. If the world could do something good and please God through its nature and works, it would not need the punishment of the Holy Spirit. 3, 140. The world and the flesh are so minded that they do not like the gospel because it punishes them. 3, 222. All the world lies under sin, death and the devil, with all its glory, piety and good works. 3, 356. What the world considers delicious,
Worldlings. The children of the world seek riches, violence and prosperity. 3, 122. The children of the world practice all wickedness, yet they prefer God's law. 3, 125. Because the worldlings do not want to suffer poverty, suffering or violence, they will not keep and enjoy the kingdom of heaven or temporal goods with peace and tranquility. 7, 373.
Worldly people. Worldly people can be wiser in external, physical things with their reason than spiritual people. 3, 995.
worldly. The true Christian church knows nothing of the worldly arm, which the godless bishops alone seize, invoke and fear. 4, 1099. Worldly being without faith in Christ is and should be nothing, however holy and spiritual it may seem. 13, 1993.
World Regiment. Those who rely on their own advice and prudence in the world regime confuse and prevent everything. 2, 278. Solomon teaches the right cause in the world regime as well as in the home. 4, 1917. The pope and the monks, through inexperienced people, have almost destroyed both estates, the world regiment and the household. 4, 1918. Although it is full of difficulties in the world and domestic regime, it is better to bear this cross than to flee. 5, 1492. In the world regiment, obedience to the law should be demanded most strictly, there one should know nothing of the gospel, of conscience, of grace 2c. 9, 160.
World Empire. God has put the world empire into reason. 3, 994. Because the world empire here on earth is superior to the kingdom of heaven in terms of money, goods and power, Christians have to suffer and be crushed by such a world empire. 13, 1282.
World parts. One makes three parts of the earth (that is, world parts). 1, 510.
World people. The world people burst out before the 'children of light, soon want to spread and make themselves great. 3, 122.
Worldly wisdom. Worldly wisdom knows and can do no more than how to have peace on earth, but God wants you to be a Christian and have a gracious God. 3, 883.
Wendelin. St. Wendelin, a shepherd, is more useful against wolves than all dogs. 3, 1165.
Wenden, von. Luther and his colleagues show the Drost Simon von Wenden zu Varenholz
Werder. Lorenz Werder, an Anabaptist, accused Luthern and the visitators before the Elector with various and great complaints 2c. 21a, 1318.
Works. All works of God are words of God, created by his uncreated word. 1, 58. God looks at the person before the work; if he is good, his work is pleasing to him; if he is not good, his work is not pleasing to him. 1, 314. The person does not become righteous or just through his work, but the work becomes good and just through the person, who is righteous and just. 1, 315. God wants people to take comfort in him and rely on him for Christ's sake; then the person begins to please God, and after that the works also please him. 1, 316'. The works that follow faith are, as it were, testimonies of faith, which also please God. 1, 317. The works of the profession are not naked works, but adorned with God's word, for they are commanded and ordered by God. 1, 867. The domestic works of a believer are superior to all the works of monks and nuns, no matter how great, heavy and apparent they may be. 1, 858. The works done in profession and faith in the Son of God shine before God, before the face of the angels and the whole Church. 1, 867. In all works this is the noblest, that thou mayest be sure that God has commanded and commanded it. 1, 890. The works of a husband who presides rightly over his household, of a wife who cares for and waits on her children 2c., are far above all the works of nuns, of which they proudly boast. 1, 1165. If the heart is faithful, even the natural things, as sleeping, waking, eating and drinking, are holy and pleasing to God. 1, 858. Right good works are to be obedient to our parents and overlords and to honor them, to govern the servants in the house, to show friendship, servitude and goodwill. 1, 1163. What believers do, even though it is a free work, is pleasing to God for the sake of faith. 1, 859. All the works of the pious, which come from a pure and faithful heart, are very pleasant and pleasing to the Holy Spirit. 1, 1710. Even the most apparent work, which is done against God's word, is a pure abomination. 1, 866. Love, hope, patience and other works do not take hold of the promise, but do the commands of God. 1,' 947. We cannot be justified by the very highest works, as the love of God and neighbor. The reason is, we cannot do them. 1, 620. All trust, righteousness, wisdom, and everything that belongs to works, is described in the Scriptures.
Works righteous. The works righteous do not want to accept grace and eternal life from God for free, but earn it with their works. 9, 174.
Work righteousness. Works righteousness does not want to take anything as a gift from God, but wants to give it to him beforehand, so that he has to repay it, as he is our debtor. 3, 1830.
Work sanctity. It is very difficult for a man, who has spent his life in his own work, to rise up with all his heart through faith in the one Mediator. 9, 910. The doctrine of work sanctity should be the first against the gospel, but it remains the last, without always getting new names, as Pelagian 2c. 14, 133.
Work Teachers. Our teachers of works, almost all bishops and clergy, belong to the Old Testament, because they have closed the gates of righteousness and made gates of sin out of them. 5, 1233.
Work drivers. The idolaters and the idolatrous believe that what the law threatens is not their business. 3, 1609. The workaholics give God the glory that he is so pious, and give the pious what they deserve; thus they take away God's glory and attach it to themselves. 3, 1829. The workaholics want to have their pretensions held for the firmest and most certain foundation of blessedness, yes, for the rock of true faith. 4, 794 f. The workmen boast that they teach nothing but faith, hope and love, and want to be the only ones who trust in the Lord. 4, 795. The workmen torture the conscience, always learning and never coming to the knowledge of the truth. 4, 795. Those who teach about pardons, indulgences, the various ways of confession, and innumerable other such folly belong to the workhorses. 4, 795 f. The workaholics are never without a trembling and timid conscience, however much they always do their good works. 4, 796. The workaholics do not fear and love God, nor do they serve him in faith, but choose new services that God has not commanded, through which God is not reconciled 2c. 9, 366.
Werner. Luther intercedes for Nickel Werner. 21a, 1661 f.
Wertheim. Count Georg von Wertheim asked Luthern for a Lutheran preacher. 13, 2576.
Wesel. Wesel writes: To be tempted is not a sin, because otherwise Christ, since he was tempted, would also have sinned. 9, 1647. M. Johann von Wesel (Wesalia) has been a preacher at Mainz, has previously governed the high school at Erfurt with his books, from which Luther became a master there. 16, 2243.
Wessel. Wessel, a Frisian from Groningen, is a man of admirable gifts, of a rare and great spirit, taught in truth by God. 14, 253.
Westerburg. Joh. Brismann writes to Luther about the swarming Dr. jur. Gerhard Westerburg. 21b, 2809.
Western shirt. After baptism, baptized infants are dressed in white vests as a sign and confession of their baptism and new birth. 12, 526. In order to publicly confess that they were baptized and cleansed by Christ, the baptized children walked in a white vest eight days after baptism. 22, 552 f. Because we are all baptized now, the custom of wearing western shirts has gone, which I do not want to bring up again, although the western shirt is still in use today. 22, 553.
Westermann. Luther asks for venison for the doctor's feast from Johann Westermann and Gottselig von Hervord. 15, 2618.
Weather. History of the farmer who wanted to make the weather himself. 5, 652.
Weybringer. Luther sends Johann Wehbringer as pastor for Hildburghausen. 21a, 1271 f. Luther asks the Elector to order the removal of the pastor of Hildburghausen, Jo.
Wicel (Witzel). Georg Witzel, the hypocrite and apostate blasphemer, once accused Luther that "we teach too many external things. 1, 1252. Witzel, Cocles [Cochlaeus] 2c. are priests who desecrate the holy gospel only to gain favor with their bishops and the idol at Rome. 13, 388. Witzel has stolen all that is his from Erasmus; one should answer him and despise him 2c. 18, 1988 f. Witzel is not worthy that an honest man should have anything to do with him or talk to him, because he is a fundamentally envious and hostile hypocrite. 18, 1990 Luther writes to Georg Wicel and Anton Hermann that he will work for their release from prison. 21a, 1428 f. Luther warns Justus Menius against Wicel, that he should not allow him to make his nest there. 21a, 1703 f. Luther warns the preachers at Erfurt against Georg Wicel, who is rumored to be applying for a position there. 21a, 1759 f. Wicel blasphemes Luther for praising and elevating civic works. 22, 990. Luther said: "Wicel is not worthy that I would write against him, lest he be strengthened in his wickedness. Those who have fallen away from us have become the most miserable people. 22, 1018. Luther's report why George Wicel fell away from the gospel again. 22, 1018. Wicel was one of the beginners of the uprising in Thuringia, who, when he was caught, should have been beheaded, but the chancellor D. Gregorius Brück kept him alive. 22, 1018. Wicel defends the most unjust cause against his conscience, is also the most ungrateful knave, worthy of death, but he has been preserved alive and honorable by our benevolence. 22, 1052. George Wicel, Crotus and others came to us and wanted to become great lords with us, like Judas with Christ. 22, 1102.
Wick. Doctor Wick. 15, 2501.
Wickleff. God wants us to live through Christ alone. In this article the monks have erred, and where they have not repented, they have been condemned, as Wiklef has said. 9, 1484. Already the English reformer Johann Wiklef recognized, but only in his later life, the pope as the antichrist. 14, 186. Wicklef and Hus only challenged the life of the pope, therefore they could not raise it, but Luther attacked the doctrine, thus he beat them. 22, 892.
Wiedemann. Wolf Wiedemann's, Mayor of Leipzig, letter to Luther concerning Luther's writing to the citizens of Leipzig. 19, 1822 f. Luther's reply to the Mayor of Leipzig, Wolf Wiedemann's, letter. 19, 1822 ff.
was blasphemed in the most shameful way, he begins to pray for his enemies. 12, 555.
Will (of God). The "will of the sign" are the images through which God reveals Himself; the "will of the good pleasure" is the essential will of God or the bare majesty. 1, 488. One should not inquire about the essential and divine will, but abstain from it par excellence as from the divine majesty, which is inscrutable. 1, 489. The will of good pleasure has been from eternity and has been revealed and shown in Christ. 1, 491 The will of grace in Jesus Christ is rightly and properly called the will of good pleasure. 1, 491. When one has known God's will, one should not argue long about law, custom, 2c., but obey the command of God without any hesitation. 2, 268. God has revealed his will in the law and the gospel; I should deal with this and not ask why God does this or that.
Will, the free. We have quite a bit of free will, but in the things that are below us, for we are set lords over the fish in the sea by God's command 2c. 1, 103. 1, 103. In the things that are above us, which concern God, man has no free will, but is like the clay in the hand of the potter. 1, 103. Man's will and reason is so injured and weakened by sin that he not only no longer loves God, but also flees Him and is an enemy to Him. 1, 202. Free will without grace or the Holy Spirit serves for nothing else but to sin. 1, 480. If a man cannot tolerate the pure doctrine and rejects the word of salvation, 2c. he becomes an enemy of God through the help of free will. 1, 481. When there will be a concilium, free will will decide and think that one should follow what the pope and the fathers have decreed. 1, 482. When we discuss free will, we ask what it is capable of doing theologically, not what it is capable of doing in worldly things. 1, 484. Free will and reason cannot do otherwise than blaspheme God. 3, 83. All intentions and thoughts that come from free will are evil. 3, 172. What goes in the free will, if it goes according to God's law, does not make it children of God. 3, 291. Foolish reason of the sophists for free will. 3, 1409. The ungodly word "free will" and all that is spread about it in doctrines are to be utterly abhorred, also not to be admitted with any gloss. 3, 1446. That we do everything before the face of God, as it were in God's presence, is not in our
Wilskamp. Luther reports to Gerhard Wilskamp that the work on the prophets is delayed due to the dispersion of the co-workers because of the plague. 21a, 1008. Luther thanks Gerhard Wilskamp for the consolation he received in his trials. 21a, 1058.
Wimpfeling. D. Wimpfeling would have been almost killed because he doubted whether Augustine was a monk. 22, 896.
Wimpina. Conrad Wimpina is mentioned everywhere as the author of Tetzel's counter-theses, and Luther considers it certain that it is so. 15, 2381.
Wind. The wind is a creature that did not exist before, when heaven and earth were mixed together. 1, 11. These six weeks we have had such unusual winds and waters without cessation that many people have been drowned, suddenly many things have been carried away 2c., 21b, 2383. 2384.
Windisch. Kilian Windisch asks Luthern for assistance in obtaining the scholarship promised to him. 21b, 2608 ff. Luther and his comrades ask the Elector for a scholarship for Kilian Windisch. 21b, 2559 f.
Winkelmesse". 21b, 1873 Luther resists Amsdorf's acceptance of the position of provost in Nuremberg, and wants to know what he thinks of his book "Von der Winkelmesse". 21b, 1879 f. Luther says of his book "Von der Winkelmesse," which some have misinterpreted, that he wrote it against the papists and their abominations, not against ours. 21b, 1904. Luther asks Jonas to translate his book "Von der Winkelmesse" into Latin. 21b, 1905. No one can persuade the papists that the angle mass is the greatest blasphemy and idolatry on earth, for they are blinded and obdurate. 22, 240 f. If the papists would drop the private and angle mass, they would have to give back everything that they have lied to the people with the mass, stolen and snatched to themselves. 22, 1005.
Winkler. That Mr. Winkler, preacher at Halle, has been strangled is a guilt of which the earth has not yet been cleansed. 9, 1574: M. Georg Winkler is demanded from the assassins by episcopal letters from Halle to Aschaffenburg. 10, 1965: Magister Georg Winkler's blood cried out and still cries out violently against the Cardinal of Mainz. 19, 1881. Luther reports to Spalatin that the Archbishop of Mainz is accused of having killed the preacher at Halle, M. Georg Winkler. 21a, 976. Luther will write to those at Halle about the murder committed against M. Georg Winkler. 21a, 1013.
work. All believers must work, not for their own sake, but for the sake of others, so that they serve them. 11, 1595.
Witte. Witte in Saxon is wisdom or experience, hence "Wittich" the wise, the experienced, the understanding. 14, 730 f.
Wittenberg. The names of the cities and villages around Wittenberg indicate that Jews have lived there. 1, 595. Luther does not doubt that the very worst people lived around Wittenberg in former times; hence the sandy and barren soil. 1, 595. The small town of Wittenberg gave a thousand guilders to the monks under the papacy. 2, 109. Luther says: I can say with truth, at Wittenberg there is no idol or godless being: therefore the church is holy, for the preaching ministry is pure 2c. 2, 651 f. It is a great ornament and honor to Wittenberg that the high school is here and so many pious, learned people who deal with heavenly doctrine and good arts. 2, 732. In Wittenberg, it would also be necessary to have officials over the bakers, wine taverns and butchers, so that these people would not so horribly rob us more than the cattle. 2, 1293 f. There are many wicked, perverse people here, but still
Wittenbergers. The Wittenbergers must now be sinners alone, although we give an account of our doctrine to anyone who demands it. 2, 708. The Wittenbergers also have a BethAven with them, the All Saints Church, which Duke Frederick inherited from his ancestors and, deceived by the papists, enhanced and exalted. 19, 1175. The Wittenbergers know well how to speak of faith and also of love, but there is a lack of power and action. 20, 10: Faith must stand firm, but love must and may be guided, as it wants to be according to the neighbor's need. In this piece, the Wittenbergers were absent. 20, 12 f. The Wittenbergers did wrong by starting such a game without Luther's command and consent and by not asking him, as their preacher, about it. 20:15 Luther tells the Wittenbergers that if they want to continue with storms and violence, he will not stand with them. 20, 19. Luther has never suffered such heartache from his enemies as from his friends, the Wittenbergers, through their abuse and storms. 20, 38. Luther says to the Wittenbergers: It is to be pitied that I have preached faith and love to you for so long, and so no love should be felt in you. 20, 45.
Wittenbergian. "Wittenbergische Reformation," or Essay of the Protestants of Christian Reformation and Church Regiment 2c. 17, 1133 ff. Der Hessische Theologen Bedenken über die "Wittenbergische Reformation". 17, 1162. Der chursächsichen Theologen Antwort auf der Hessischen Bedenken über die "Wittenbergische Reformation". 17, 1163.
Widowers. St. Paul gives all widowers and widowers the right to free, no one excluded, neither priests nor laymen. 8, 1048.
Witzel. Witzel, see Wicel.
Weeks. All teachers agree that the seventy weeks of Daniel are not weeks of days, but weeks of years, that is, one week lasts seven years. 6, 906. Account of the weeks of Daniel. 20, 1817 ff. Gabriel does not speak of weeks of days, as seven days make a week, but of weeks of years, as seven years make a week. 20, 1818. The seventy weeks of Daniel begin with Nehemiah's journey from Persia, that is, around the seventh year of Darius Longimanus. 20, 1818. The seventy weeks of Daniel make four hundred and ninety years. 20, 1818. It is completely agreed that the seventy weeks of Daniel are not weeks of days, but weeks of years, that one week is called seven years.
20, 1953. Of the seventy weeks of Daniel. 20, 1953 ff.
Welfare. That has been the ruin of all empires, that they have not used welfare modestly. This can be seen in the Assyrians, Persians, Greeks and Romans. 14, 1334.
Wolves. Those who preach something other than the gospel, who lead people on works, merit and self-imagined holiness, are abominable wolves. 5, 282 f. Now one finds many people who may well suffer that one preaches the gospel, if only one does not cry out against the wolves and preach against the prelates. 9, 1100. the wolf can well suffer that the sheep have good pasture; he has them the better that they are hostile; but he cannot suffer that the dogs bark hostilely. 9, 1101. The wolves are those who want to rule the souls with such doctrine, which they have invented and fabricated out of their own wisdom or discretion. 11, 1125. Where the word is right and pure, the wolves do not use it, but surely come. 13, 792.
Wolfenbüttel. Luther reports to Lauterbach that the impregnable Wolfenbüttel has been conquered in three days. 21b, 2784.
Wolferinus. Luther's two letters to 21 Simon Wolferinus, pastor in Eisleben, concerning the leftover bread and wine in Holy Communion. 20, 1604 ff.
Wolff. The Elector asks Luther to give his opinion whether Martin Wolff, pastor in Rochlitz, should be used in Colditz. 21b, 3103. Luther is pleased that Martin Wolff, pastor in Rochlitz, should be transferred to Colditz. 21b, 3103 f.
want. Even if the devil did not rule over him, sin, of which man is the servant, would make him burden enough that he could not want the good. 18, 1903.
Want, that. Neither God nor the devil allows a pure and mere willing in us, but after freedom is lost, we are forced to serve sin. 18, 1768.
Wolrab. The printer Wolrab in Leipzig has so far printed all disgraceful books against us and distributed them with all diligence. 21b, 2352. Luther asks the Elector that the Leipzig printer Wolrab be forbidden to reprint his Bible. 21b, 2352.
Worms. After the Diet of Worms, in twelve years such great things happened by the power of God that no man could have imagined or imagined. 10, 1950. Hermann Busch describes the violence and insolent behavior of the Spaniards at the Diet of Worms. 15, 1641 f. The sin at Worms, since the divine truth was so publicly, willfully, knowingly condemned without being heard, is a sin of the common German nation. 2c. 15, 1668. The gospel was condemned at Worms to Luther, and even though they did not shed his blood, they were not lacking in their full, whole will. 15, 1671: Chursachsen asks the Emperor not to do anything against Luther before he has been heard, to which the Emperor replies that he may bring Luther himself to the Diet in Worms. 15, 1695: The Elector of Saxony indicates to the Emperor important reasons why it would not be expedient to bring Luther with him to Worms. 15, 1698 The Emperor requests that Saxony bring Luther with him to the Diet in Worms, so that he may have him interrogated by learned and highly competent people. 15, 1697 f. The Emperor reports to the Elector that he has been told that Luther has fallen under the Pope's highest ban, therefore he should not bring him to Worms, even if he recanted. 2c. 15, 1702 f. At the beginning of the year 1521, shortly before the Diet of Worms, Pope Leo X issues a new bull of condemnation and banishment against Luther and his followers. 15, 1704. Several proposals before the Diet of Worms on how to act in Luther's cause. (The anonymous author of No. 532 is probably Erasmus.) 15, 1716 ff. Luther writes to Spalatin that if the Emperor should summon him to Worms to be killed, he will offer to come. 15, 1725 Luther wants to reply to Emperor Charles that he would not come if he were called to Worms solely for the sake of the recantation, since he could also do so in Wittenberg. 15, 1725. Council decision that nothing should be discussed with Luther at Worms, but asked whether he would like to discuss the writings of the Emperor.
Wormser. The Emperor issues the Edict of Worms, by which Luther was put in eight. 15, 1906. Knight Johann von Rechenberg inquires of the Elector whether it is true that the Edict of Worms was made with the unanimous consent of the Estates. 15, 1909: Hartmuth von Kronberg denounces his service to the Emperor because of the Worms Edict. 15, 1911: Prince Frederick writes to Knight Joh. von Rechenberg that he left Worms due to indisposition before the Worms Edict was passed. 15, 1911. 1524, the Diet of Nuremberg again urges that the Edict of Worms be carried out. 15, 2253. At a convention in Regensburg, it is decided to execute the Worms Edict in accordance with the decrees of the two Nuremberg diets in 1523 and 1524. 15, 2263 ff. The emperor issues an edict against the Nuremberg imperial decree because it is contrary to the Worms edict. 15, 2268. "Two imperial discordant and repugnant commandments concerning Luther," with Luther's preamble and postamble. (The commandments are: the Worms Edict and the Nuremberg Edict.) 15, 2274. The Worms Edict. 15, 2276 ff. The papists could not keep nor suffer the Worms Edict themselves, and it had to be changed at the Diet of Nuremberg 2c. 16, 949.
Worst, Hans. The word "Hans Worst" is not Luther's, nor invented by him, but people use it against the coarse dolts, who want to be clever, but speak and do unrhymed to the matter. 17, 1314. Luther wants to answer with the. Luther wants to have answered both father and son with the scripture "against Hans Worst" that they are desperate, dishonorable, lying evil-doers 2c. 17, 1315. Luther does not do it in honor of Duke Henry of Brunswick by calling him Hans Worst, but out of pure grace and mercy, which he is not worthy of. 17, 1315. To the naked, poor, bare words of blasphemy of Duke Heinrich of Brunswick one answers with a little word: Devil, you deny! Hans Worst, how do you deny 2c. 17, 1316. If the devil and his Hans Worst could say so: For such and such a cause the Elector is a heretic, an apostate, then one could answer the matter. 17, 1316.
Word, the (Son of God). The means or instrument that God used for the creation is his almighty Word, which was with God from the beginning and before the foundation of the world. 1, 22. The uncreated word is a divine thought and inner meaning, which remains in God, and with God is one thing, and yet a distinct person.
1, 26. The Word [the Son] was before all creatures, therefore he must be eternal; from this it follows that he is God. 3, 28. the Word [the Son] was before light and all creatures, because by it all things are made. 3, 29. Through the Word [the Son], which God has in Himself, God made the light. 3, 29. The Word [the Son] is equal to God, and must be God himself, because he is not a creature, but that from which all creatures spring. 3, 29. The Word was before the beginning, therefore it is said, "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." 3, 30. All things were made from nothing, only through the Word. Now the Word was not made, but it is with God in the beginning, when He made all things. 3, 1917. By the word, says Moses, all things were made. Now, apart from the creature, nothing can be with God that is not God Himself; therefore, the Word must be God Himself. 3, 1917. The word cannot be the person who speaks the word; the speaker and the word must be two different things. 3, 1917. Even blind reason cannot deny that Moses rhymes with John, that both speak the same word, through which God created everything. 3, 1917. Moses, David, John and Paul, all four testify that all things were created and made by the Word. 3, 1932. John calls the Son of God, born of the Father in eternity, the Word. 7, 1540. God has in eternity in His majesty and divine nature a word, speech, conversation or thought in His divine heart with Himself, unknown to all angels and men. 7, 1543. By the word that has been in his fatherly heart from eternity, God has decided to create heaven and earth. 7, 1543. The Word was before all angels and before all creatures, because afterwards He gave the being to all creatures through this conversation and Word. 7, 1545. The Word is not a bad word, but it is as great as God is, yes, the same Word is God Himself. 7, 1547. Reason can conclude this finely: If the Word was from the beginning, before all things began, then it must follow that the same Word is God. 7, 1549. The Word was with God, not as a separate God, but was true, eternal God, with the Father of equal divine power and honor, yet another Person. 7, 1551. The two persons, the Father and the Word, are thus distinguished: The Father is he who speaks, and the other person, the Son, is he who is spoken. 7, 1551. If everything is made by the word, and if nothing is made without it, then the word cannot be made. 7, 1556. St. John interprets
himself and says: The word is called "the only begotten Son from the Father". 7, 1662 f. The Word, says the evangelist John, of which I have spoken, is "the only begotten Son of God", true God and Creator with the Father, born of the Father. 7, 1664. Where you hear the word "word" in the evangelist John, understand "son". 7, 2151. The Word is not among the heap of those who have begun, but has already been in His essence. 7, 2152. John calls the Son "the Word" who was in the beginning before all creatures were created, because even then heretics denied that Mary's Son was the Son of God. 7, 2152. That John the Evangelist calls the Son of God the Word against the heretics, he does this for the sake of Moses, who also speaks like St. John. 7, 2153. St. John concludes against the heretics that the Word was before in the beginning, and yet the person who spoke was not; therefore the Word had to be with the speaker, not with the creature. 2c. 7, 2153. The Word is with God, but a distinct person; there are three distinct persons, but not three Gods, but One God. 7, 2153. The Word became a true, natural man; but because he is also true God, this person, who is also man, must and can have no sin. 7, 2160. The Word, who was in the beginning, became flesh, not the Father, nor the Holy Spirit. The Father is not the Son of Mary, nor the Holy Spirit. 7, 2160. In the Godhead there are three persons. The Son is the Word that was in the beginning; that same Word or saying, not the speaker, became man. 7, 2161. Before the foundation of the world there was no creature; apart from God nothing existed, therefore the Word was God Himself. 9, 1527. By God's word the heavens and the earth were created and preserved, then through his word death and the devil, sin and all evil were overcome, and all salvation was given to us in Christ Jesus. 9, 1793. Everything that was created and written is due to the word. He is the Lord who lies in the manger and Mary in His arms. 9, 1814. Because the Word did not come into being or was created like the creature, it must be eternal and have no beginning. 11, 156. God has a word, which he spoke before all creatures were created, and this word cannot be a creature, because all creatures are created by it. 11, 155 f. The word has its essence from the speaker, but everything eternally and forever, except all creatures. 11, 157. The word did not begin in the beginning, but was already in the beginning; therefore it follows that the word is eternal. 11,
160 The word was already then, when the beginning took its beginning. Therefore it did not have its beginning, nor was it made or created, but it was already in the beginning. 12, 1666. The Word and the "Only Begotten" are one, therefore John always describes Him as the Son of God. 12, 1669. The Word is equally eternal and yet distinct from God the Father, and just by this also true God. 12, 1670. Moses thus goes in that God had a word with him before all creation, which was almighty like him, and that God created all things through it. 13, 670. The created word is made by the uncreated. 1, 26.
Word of God. What is not shown to us about God in the word, we should let go of it. 1, 17 The word of God's omnipotence makes the finest and thinnest air harder and stronger than a diamond. 1, 31. Nothing is so difficult or impossible that God cannot accomplish with His word, as is evidenced by heaven, earth, sea and all that is in them. 1, 60 Eve is driven by the serpent to act against God's word and his good will. 1, 179. Where the word is taught lukewarm and pure, Satan tries many ways to either lead people away from the word or to counterfeit the word. 1, 179. As blessedness comes from God's word when it is righteous, so also destruction comes from it when it is falsified. 1, 180. The falsified word is not only the oral preaching, but also the inward thoughts, delusions and good will, when they fall away from the word. 1, 180. After Satan had taken the word out of the way, he also corrupted the will and the mind, so that he doubted God's will and broke the apple. 1, 181. Satan tries to persuade Eve to believe that God simply did not say it, so that he would take the word away from her. 1, 187. The uncorrupted, perfect nature nevertheless had a word or commandment that was above Adam's understanding and had to be believed. 1, 189. 1, 189. If Eve had kept the word, the honor against God and the faith would have remained in her; but now there is contempt for God and obedience to the devil in her. 1, 193. In all temptations and temptations, the devil tends to bring it about that the farther a person gets from the word, the more learned and wise he thinks himself to be. 1, 196. This is the devil's own temptation, that he makes us wise against and above God's word, and this temptation surpasses all other gross temptations. 1, 197. Eve is not satisfied with the wisdom given to her by God, she wants to
Without God's word, souls cannot live. 3, 18. Through God's word we are equipped, strengthened and fortified in faith to stand against all kinds of temptation and adversity. 3, 18. God's word is acted upon in two ways; by those who do not believe righteously, according to reason; by those whom the Holy Spirit teaches; to whom God gives right understanding in the heart. 3, 19. The words: "And God said" are not perishable words, but it is an eternal word, which is spoken from eternity and will always be spoken. 3, 35. The whole world is full of word, which drives all things, gives strength and sustains them. 3, 36. We should not direct the word of God, but let ourselves be directed by it. 3, 72. Everything is based on the word and faith, and we should not let ourselves be carried away by it. 3, 79. God's word saves from death, but not until man feels death first. 3, 80. Where the word of God is not, there is no life, but the fruit of death. 3, 80. God sends forth his word only for the sake of those who believe. 3, 126. God's word has never perished, but it is sometimes broken, yet it remains. 3, 126 f. Where God withdraws His word, all sin and shame follows in one heap. 3, 140. God's word strives against all reason of men, even against their senses. 3, 147. Where God's word is not, God does not dwell; build him a house as big as you like. 3, 443. Against the word of God, no sign should be believed. 3, 345 f. Against the word that God has spoken, all signs are not to be believed. 3, 346 Against the word of God no angel shall be believed. 3, 346 f. If God speaks His word through men in the Scriptures, it is as certain as if an angel spoke from heaven. 3, 411. God wants us to abide by the word alone; he speaks it as and where he wills. 3, 412. God does not want to let the sin of using his word shamefully and contemptuously go unpunished. 3:413 Wherever God's word goes, one should not ask whether it is right; what he says should be right. 3, 478. God's word is more valid than all the world. 3, 536. Where God's word is preached, there he will surely be found; there is his house. 3, 535. The word of God is foolishness in the sight of the world, but no one shall be saved who does not believe in it. 3, 631 f. The word of God snatches us from all things that are not God. 3, 632. The word is called Abraham's Schooß. 3, 672 f. Those who have God's word must suffer persecution from the devil. 3, 691. When God's word grows and is rightly recognized to punish us and rebuke our wicked life, then
will not deceive you. 6, 490. If we do not take hold of the word in temptation, we will be overcome by the sensation of the present evil and succumb. 6, 491: Apart from the word there is neither counsel nor comfort, but everything is unstable and uncertain, on which conscience cannot safely rely. 6, 507: In all danger, in all hardships, in all temptations, we should close our eyes and follow the word. 6, 517. Everything that is not prescribed in the word of God is reprehensible and devilish, if we presume to reconcile God with it. 6, 539. We see in our time how the word penetrates the papacy and devastates it. 6, 573. The word of Christ, which we have received from Christ, is the true word of God, even if the whole world denies it. 6, 574. The word makes me bear all things patiently, and, comforted by the word, I do not refuse to endure death. 6, 593. The church would rather endure death ten times than deny the word of God either with works or with the mouth. 6, 593. Today, our brothers who are here and there in the service of the Gospel write to us that the word is everywhere pitifully despised. 6, 599. These are godless and unholy spirits who despise the oral word. 6, 604. Let each one be careful to hold the word that he reads in the Bible, which he hears from the mouth of a man, very high. 6, 607. The word in the kingdom of Christ is a word of salvation and peace, which is only needed by those who feel condemnation and are plagued by sins. 6, 613. Those who adhere to the word do so by God's gift, not by their own strength, for reason is repelled by the gospel. 6, 739. He who has the word and believes it is a child of God and has both the verbal and the spiritual word. 6, 739. The certainty of faith cannot be in the heart unless God first teaches the word and creates peace in the heart through the word. 6, 740. Godly hearts are far from being tired of the word, and daily bring a new fervent desire for the word. 6, 742. Godly hearts believe that the word is God's word and is inspired by God through the Holy Spirit. 6, 742. When one begins to teach the word of God, everything flares up from discord and murder. The wicked say that the gospel is the cause. 6, 768. The word of God abides forever, therefore Christians have cheerful consciences, and the more the world rages, the bolder and more defiant they become. 6, 869.
Negligence in the word and in prayer is gradually followed by a noticeable transgression until it finally becomes a habit of sinning. 6, 811. Nothing so inconsistent can be taught that men should not approve and accept if they are without the word or do not pay attention to the word. 6, 1288. Since the right knowledge of God arises from the word alone, it is certain that not the Turks, not the Jews, not any pagans pray. 6, 1515. The word of God is rightly divided when the gospel is presented to those who are afraid, but the blasphemers and wicked people are punished. 7, 48. The honor of the word must be made great, so that when we hear the gospel in church or read it in the book, it is just as much as when we hear God Himself in heaven. 7, 113. The world despises the majesty of Him who speaks and His word, hears and wonders about human things. 7, 113. It is a manifest nonsense that the blame for the word not bearing fruit, which lies with the hearers, is placed on the word. 7, 189. To the enemies of the word, the same cannot be preached in any way that they will accept it, because they are ready to slander and falsify everything. 7, 191. The word of the apostles is the confession of Peter that should resound throughout the world. 7, 284 f. What is and goes in God's word must be called pure, unadulterated and snow-white before God and man. 7, 383 f. The word to which you cling by faith is too strong for the devil, even though it seems small and we do not see it, but the devil has often felt its power. 7, 622. God's word and work should not be nothing because the one who receives it does not ask about it, despises it or does not understand it, nor does he believe in it. 7, 990. God's word and work is always right, whether a Christian or an ungodly person uses it. 7, 991. God's word is true, although not all listeners believe in it. 7, 992. When I preach, one should not say: If one believes, God's word is true; if one does not believe, it is false. 7, 996. Now that God's word is preached, the citizens and farmers in cities and villages cannot well support a pastor and preacher. 7, 1057. You and I shall be under the word. The word is not mine and yours, therefore I will not set you above God's word, nor let you be right where you are wrong. 7, 1086. Where God's word is not preached, the hearer is not guilty of obedience. 7, 1154. The crowd that truly has God's word must be held up; the others, the mobs, can be suffered. 7,
If God's word and the sacraments remain pure, there will always be pious people, however few, who live a Christian life. 7, 1521. He who does not hold fast to the word of God soon allows this and that to be disputed; he sees so much of the aversions that he goes astray. 7, 1588. Although not all believe the word or receive the Holy Spirit through the word, the gospel is not unrighteous. 7, 1594. For this reason God has established the ministry of reconciliation and the word of reconciliation, the gospel, among us, so that it may be diligently practiced and heard. 7, 1595. God will not leave unpunished the ingratitude and contempt of his word among us, and the persecution of the Gospel among the papists. 7, 1689. If one lets go of the word, baptism is only water and the Lord's Supper is bread, because the right core of the sacrament is the word. 7, 2130. There is much in the word; this must first accustom and teach people to understand what baptism and the sacrament of the Lord's Supper are. 7, 2131. You now have the word of God in the church, in the books, in your house, and this is certainly God's word, just as if God himself were speaking. 7, 2143. The voice is the good of the priest, but the word that he leads or speaks, that speaks my God. 7, 2145. We are to regard Christ's word, not as any man's word, but as the Father's word. 7, 2296. Where one does not want to hear God's word alone, nor believe, but grasps everything with reason, one will grumble about it out of human wisdom. 7, 2303. The wicked also have the true word of God and hear it, but do not believe it to be the word of God. 7, 2297. I cannot conceive the word, but I hear it through the mouth of Christ, and I cannot understand it, hear it, learn it, nor believe it, unless he puts it into the heart. 7, 2301. In the matter of God and faith, we do not have to do anything or act with our speaking, writing or remembering; we have to take the divine word for it. 7, 2303. If you hear someone boast that he has something from inspiration or inspiration of the Holy Spirit, and it is without God's word, say that it is the wicked devil. 7, 2388. Christ says: If you want to obtain the Holy Spirit, keep my words, for they are spirit and life. 7, 2388. If a thing comes to thee, though it seemeth good and holy, hold it against the word of God, and see whether God hath commanded, ordained, and commanded it, or not. 7, 2389. If I am to understand the words that I hear, it must be through the Holy Spirit, who also makes me spiritual; the word is spiritual, and I am spiritual.
Word, which I know to be his word. 11, 1107. All those who diligently adhere to the word of God are fed by God Himself, for this is the nature of faith that flows from the word of God alone. 11, 1371. Whoever hears and believes the Word of God, which preaches and offers us God's grace in the Gospel, becomes thereby pious and righteous. That is why it is called a word of life, of grace 2c. 11, 1457. The word shows us the mercy and goodness of God; faith makes us cling to it with a good confidence and follow the word. 11, 1517. The kingdom of Christ is founded on the word, which otherwise can neither be grasped nor comprehended without these two limbs, ears and tongue. 11, 1529. God's goodness must be proclaimed through the word, and thus built from it untried and unfeeling. 11, 1578. God has so ordained that no one should come to the knowledge of Christ, nor receive the forgiveness acquired through him, or the Holy Spirit without outward, public means of the word 2c. 11, 1736. When we have grasped the word, then let the world, death, sin, hell and all misfortune rage and rage after it. 11, 1767. We must also do as the wise do, that we stick to the word alone, and even if it is strange and against reason, that we still stick to it. 11, 2109 f. Christ reigns in the word, therefore it is necessary that we experience the power of the word, for the kingdom of Christ is God's power and authority. 11, 2217. The word of God is God's wisdom, God's power, God's strength, God's might; no work is so great that he respects it unless it is put into the word. 11, 2269. Christ comes to us through his word and makes us innocent of sins, keeps us masters in the midst of the power of the devil and death. 11, 2279. To acquire eternal life, only one thing is necessary, that is, God's word and faith. 11, 2358. One word of God is more than the pope, the conciliar, the fathers and the high schools. The word, Christ's voice, we are to hear. 11, 2412. Christ's words are called words of life, and they are also words of life, and he who believes and clings to them must live. 12, 190. God's word and things cannot suffer any addition, it must be completely pure and clean, or it is already corrupted and no longer of use. 12, 480. Our salvation is in the word of Christ, that it should be called a word of salvation and peace and truly brings and gives salvation and peace. 12, 502. God sent the word; it was not invented and produced by men, but it is God's from heaven,
who speaks through poor people. 12, 502. Why would you give room to the devil and deprive yourself of your salvation and eternal life, and not let everything go before you deny God's word? 12, 533. The oral or preached word has such power that it can save souls. 12, 591. The world with all that it is able to do cannot harm or help you because you keep the treasure of the word. 12, 591. When I know that it is God's word and that God has spoken it, I do not ask how it can be true, it rhymes with reason as it will. 12, 651. In all articles of our holy faith, a Christian should do so that one does not dispute much about whether it is possible, but only looks at whether it is God's word. 12, 651. If it is God's word that he has spoken it, you can be sure that he will not lie to you or deceive you, even if you do not understand how or when. 12, 651. Those who want to follow reason in the articles of faith and despise the word shall perish and perish above their wisdom. 12, 656. Where one does not have or does not respect God's word, human wisdom chooses and makes for itself its own worship, which one considers a delicious thing. 12, 803. The gushing spirits seek the Holy Spirit without the oral word, and let themselves dream, if they creep into a corner, they want to seize the Holy Spirit with their thoughts. 12, 838. It is not a matter of seeing what you can do or what you are, but that souls may be sure, as they have God's word and work with them, to be saved by it. 12, 841. God's word and the wholesome, blessed doctrine should be reviled and persecuted by the devil and the world, along with those who cling to it. 12, 874 f. This is the great riches and precious treasure, to have God's word and not to doubt that it is God's word; this does it, this can comfort and sustain a heart. 12, 903. Where the word comes out of the church, and for instance babblers are allowed on the preaching chair, who pretend to their own art, then it is done for the church. 12, 925. Without God's word, nothing certain can be said or known, neither of His divine nature nor of His will. 12, 1202. We are honored enough that God speaks to us and feeds us with his word, gives us his baptism, key sc. 12, 1262. We are to hear God's word and know nothing of Joseph's pants or Pabst's foolish work. 12, 1262. If man is to abide in right and eternal life, he must have God's Word to protect and comfort him against the
Words. Shameful words, which are spoken publicly and without fear, give rise to evil thoughts and great annoyance, especially among the young people. 12, 454. "Dishonorable words" are the
The lewd words of fornication and impurity and carnal sins, which are often used in inns, and in eating, drinking 2c.. 12, 454. One should be accustomed to good, righteous, intelligible words, which are in common use, and indicate and give a thing actually and understandably. 22, 1534. Heretics often deliberately obscure a thing with whimsical, strange, uncommon words, devise new ways of speaking 2c. 22, 1534 f. Those who invent new words also introduce new things, such as Scotus with his realitas, hiccitas, and the Anabaptists with their decoction, sprinkling, purification. 22, 1536. A man's word can do nothing but make his conscience apprehensive, fearful, erroneous. 4, 814.
Word understanding. In the Scriptures, the clear word understanding, in which nothing is figurative, is the more excellent. 14, 2102 f.
Woye. Luther asks Prince Georg von Anhalt to take care of the distress of the priest Moritz Woye and to improve his situation during the visitation. 21b, 3014.
Wounds. The wounds that they inflicted on Christ's hands and feet, they did not inflict on Mary's Son alone, but on God's Son. 3, 749.
Wonderful. If Christ works faith in us through the Word and the Sacraments, then he is Wonderful. 6, 210. Christ is called "Wonderful"; he leaves his own people, the Jews, and accepts the Gentiles, his enemies; he breaks and destroys Judaism and builds the Gentiles to his kingdom. 11, 1999. Christ is miraculous because his being, kingdom and rule stands in suffering and killing the old Adam, and leaves nothing good that he does, knows and can do. 11, 2000. Christ is called "Wonderful" because we cannot do more than marvel that God becomes man and saves us from the devil, sin, death and damnation. 13, 1049. The Lord is marvelous, leads marvelously, brings us into cross and suffering; is righteous and comforting; is powerful and also helps us to get through and gain the victory. 13, 2625.
whimsical. We must suffer and cry out to the Lord, who leads in miracles, and not flee from the suffering. 4, 362.
world, against death, sin and the law and still retain the victory. 11, 1991,
Work and merit help me to bliss. 13, 2572. To the lords of Meissen and the Roman See must be called all miraculous signs that only confirm temporal good and honor. 16, 2330. That Christ forbids to spread his miraculous signs, he does, so that he gives us an example and a lesson, that we should not seek our honor in what we do good. 22, 301. As long as the idolatries and abominable idolatries of the pagans ruled, it was necessary that Christ and the apostles did bodily miraculous signs, to confirm the doctrine of faith in Christ. 22, 1435.
worthy. By considering God to be a right God, I am considered worthy before him, and he will also show himself to be a right God. 5, 1197.
Worthiness. Papists and Anabaptists unanimously agree against the Church of God that God's work depends on the worthiness of the person. 9, 13.
Würtemberg. Duke Eberhard of Würtemberg praised his country for being able to sleep safely in the bosom of every subject. 22, 1231.
Wuerzburg. The bishop of Würzburg is Duke of Franconia; all bishops have dukedoms; there one has given for the sake of false appearance 2c. 7, 1163 f.
Wurzen. The noise that arose in the year 42 around Easter because of the city of Wurzen between the dukes of Saxony, God has averted and repelled. 2, 586 f. Treaty of the displeasure that arose between the Elector John Frederick and Duke Moritz of Saxony over the capture of the city and the district of Wurzen. 17, 1436: Luther's exhortation to the Elector and Duke Moritz of Saxony to make peace because of the discord over the city of Wurzen. 17, 1440. Luther's letter to Nicolaus Amsdorf concerning the matter of the city of Wurzen. 17, 1446: The Landgrave of Hesse asks Luther and Melanchthon to make representations to the Elector that he cease the Wurzen feud. 21b, 2742 f. Luther expresses his joy to Chancellor Brück about the peace negotiations in the dispute over Wurzen and sends him his writing about it, half finished in print. 21b, 2743 f. At the request of the Landgrave of Hesse, Luther asks the Elector to be found gentle and kind in the peace negotiations over the Wurzen dispute. 21b, 2744. Luther expresses his joy to the Landgrave of Hesse about the prospect of a settlement of the Wurzen dispute. 21b, 2746. Luther thanks the chancellor Brück for
Writings sent to him and report on the Wurzen dispute. 21b, 2747.