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On the Babylonian Captivity of the Church

By: Martin Luther

...e, involves first, the death of the testator, and second, the promise of an inheritance and the naming of the heir. Thus Paul discusses at length th... ...f Canaan, by which no man was renewed in spirit to lay hold on the heavenly inheritance. Wherefore also it was necessary that, as a figure of Christ,... ...ised through the Spirit for the forgiveness of sins, that we may obtain the inheritance. According to its substance, therefore, the mass is nothing ... ... own accord offers, promises, and grants such great riches and this eternal inheritance to one who is unworthy and deserving of something far differ... ...ld be mindful of his covenant [Gen. 9:8–17]. And after promising Abraham the inheritance in his seed, he gave him circumcision as a mark of his justi... ...g his departed father a kindness by accepting the terms of the will and the inheritance it bequeaths to him? What godless audacity is it, therefore,... ...of the two has done the greater injury to the other. The wife alienates the inheritance, but the husband has deceived his wife and is defrauding her...

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