Complete Luther Library

Your word is the truth.

Volume 9 from the one-column St. Louis Edition English DOCX texts, reformatted for mobile reading on Last Christian Ministries.

Source text used with permission from Back to Luther.

Volume 9

Your word is the truth.

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If this is true, then everything must be untruth where God's word or truth is not. That is why it is terrible when a person is without God's word or despises God's word.

1) "but" is missing in the Erlanger.

For he must live in the damned being, of which he is not sure for a moment. See how the world is such a wretched, miserable, desperate thing, where there is no truth, no God, no life, but vain lies, death, devils and all misfortune, hidden under a slight appearance or shadow; yes, it is rather a mere dream and sleep, as Moses says in his Psalm, Ps. 90, 5: Fluctuasti eos, somnus sunt, they go by like a stream, they sleep. Who believes this? Oh, how can they believe because they sleep?