Thursday, May 8, 2008

The Promise and the Work

Luther wrote:
Desert is a work nowhere to be found, for Christ gives a reward by reason of the promise. If the prince elector should say to me, "Come to the court, and I will give you one hundred [coins], I perform a work in going to the court, yet I receive not the gift by reason of the work in going thither, but by reason of the promise the prince made me.
Table Talk #268

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