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Commentary on Genesis

by Luther, Martin (1958)

Abstract

This first chapter of our Holy Bible is written in the simplest and plainest language, and yet it contains the greatest and at the same time the most difficult themes. Therefore the Jews, as Jerome testifies, were forbidden to read it or hear it read before they were thirty years of age …

Key Passage

Hence man did not fall by sin in soul only, but in body also; and both participate in the punishment. For labor is a punishment, which in the state of innocence was an amusement and a pleasure. (p.96)

Keywords

Reformation, Protestantism, Theology, History, History Of Ideas, Religious Views On Work

Themes

Luther, Protestantism, Religious Views on Work

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