German Theology

someone, he was able to; This completes the thought from the previous page: "just as a man can kill himself but not bring himself back to life, so Adam could destroy himself..." but neither he himself, nor anyone else lost by his sin, was able to save him. Therefore, for the salvation of the world, it was necessary that someone should emerge who was free from sin, who could deliver others from sin and teach the way of life. This is Jesus Christ, the Son of the living God, to whom all power in heaven and on earth has been given. He not only teaches this way of salvation but also grants man the strength, through faith, to walk upon it. By "faith," I want to be understood not that dead faith A reference to the Epistle of James 2:17: "faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead." (for it is no more faith than a dead man is a human being) but a living and active faith, the kind whose works and effects Peter describes in these words:

2 Peter 1.

But you, apply yourselves with all diligence to this: providing virtue in your faith, knowledge in virtue, self-control in knowledge, patience in self-control, godliness in patience, brotherly love in godliness, and charity original: "charitatem". In this 16th-century context, "charity" refers to the highest form of Christian love (agape) rather than mere almsgiving. in brotherly love. For if these things are in you and abound, they [will] not... The sentence ends abruptly due to the page break; the catchword indicates it will continue with "leave you idle."