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Fifty boasts and virtues of one's righteousness, which one seeks to attain by works;

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Fifty boasts and virtues of one's righteousness, which one seeks to attain by works;

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from the apostle Paul's epistle to the Galatians.

One's own righteousness, which one seeks to attain through works.

Cap. 1.

1. turns away from the call to the grace of Christ.

2. accepts another gospel.

3. confuses the believing hearts.

4. perverts the gospel of Christ.

5. is cursed.

6. preaching people to service.

7. is pleasing to people.

8. [He who teaches them] is not Christ's servant.

9. comes from people, not through revelation.

10 [Is nothing; even] the highest righteousness from the law is nothing.

11) Disturbs the community of God.

Cap. 2.

12. will be justified by that by which it is impossible to be justified (ex impossibili), namely by the works of the law.

13. make sinners of those who are justified by Christ.

14. makes Christ the minister of sin.

15. rebuilds the sin that was already broken.

772 Lri. 6ai. 1, 10-12. Fifty boasts and virtues of one's own righteousness. W. VIII, 2881 f. 773

16. becomes a transgressor.

17. throw away the grace of God.

18. holds that Christ died in vain fei.

Cap. 3.

19 [Causing] the Galatians to become unintelligent,

20. That they will be charmed,

21. That they do not obey the truth,

22. that they crucify Christ,

23. That they attribute the spirit to works,

24. That they may leave the spirit and be perfected in the flesh,

25. That they have suffered and labored all in vain. 1)

26. is under the curse.

27. add to the testament of God and throw it away.

28. Makes the sins exceedingly great.

29. power that people are decided under sin.

Cap. 4.

30. make people serve the meager statutes,

31. That the gospel is preached in vain,

32. That the people become servants and children of the handmaid,

33. That they may be thrust out of the inheritance with the son of the maidservant.

Cap. 5.

34. that Christ is not useful to them, 2)

1) This sentence, Gal. 3, 4, is erroneously placed in the fourth chapter as No. 31 in the editions.

2) This sentence, Gal. 5, 1, is still included in the previous chapter in the editions. The following sentence,

35. That they still owe to do the whole law,

36. that they lose Christ,

37. That they fall from grace,

38. That they can be endured in the good course of virtue 3),

39. That what they are persuaded of is not of God,

40. That they have the leaven of corruption.

He who teaches his own righteousness will receive his judgment.

42. it makes people bite and eat each other.

43. is counted among the works of the flesh.

Cap. 6.

44. power to make people think they are something, while they are nothing,

45. That they boast of other things than God,

46. To make themselves pleasing to carnal people according to the flesh,

47. That they hate the persecution of the cross,

48. That they do not keep the law,

49. That they may boast of the teachers of carnal things.

50. power that everything is of no use, and everything is of no use.

End.

Gal. 5, 3, only the Erlangen edition has correctly placed it under the fifth chapter.

3) Instead of virtutik in the Latin editions, according to Gal. 5, 7. and the translation of Menius, perhaps veritutis should be read.