The Eternal

...are all children of wrath, enemies of God, bondservants original: leibeigene; literally "body-owned," this refers to the legal and social status of a serf or slave to emphasize the soul's lack of freedom under the devil. of the devil, and heirs of eternal pain, death, and damnation. This is our first inheritance, which we brought into the world from Adam through our sinful birth.

Thus, Christ has not only taken these sins of Adam—along with his temporal and eternal punishments—from the world upon himself, atoning and paying for them in the person of the entire world; he has carried them out of the world, nailed them to the Cross, and buried them in his grave into eternal oblivion. On the contrary, through his Resurrection, he has also restored to us everything we lost in Adam, far more gloriously and abundantly than before the Fall: such as the forgiveness of sins, eternal righteousness, life, salvation original: Seeligkeit; see note on page 15 regarding the dual meaning of blessedness and salvation., blessing, grace, healing original: Heyl; this term implies both spiritual salvation and a state of being "whole" or "sound.", peace, reconciliation, redemption, light, comfort, power, strength, overcoming, victory, freedom, joy, the Holy Spirit, the status of children original: Kindschaft; the theological concept of being adopted as sons and daughters of God with full legal rights to an inheritance., inheritance, Heaven, and all other heavenly treasures of grace and riches that no tongue of man or angel can express. For God, through a mere word...