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KEY Commentary Side Textual Bibliographic Scriptural
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loue thy neyboure as thy selfe doeth teach wemen to baptise
in tyme of neade: ye and to teach and to rule there husbandes to / if they be besydes them selues.
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And when he saith that of likelyhode / the laye
people vnderstode
the gospell of Ihon and Paules pistles better
then greate clerkes now. I answere / the moare shame is
theirs. How be it ther be .ij. causes
why: the one is their diligent sheringe: and a
nother / they denye the iustifienge of faith where of both
Paule and Ihon doo entreate and all most of nothynge else /
if the significacyon of oure baptime which is the lawe of
god and faith of christ / were expounded trulye vnto vs /
the scripture wolde be easye to all that exercised them selues there in. And sir in as moch as the prelates care so litle
for the losse of the vnderstondynge of the scripture and to
teach the people / how happeneth it / that they care so
sore for a bald ceremonie / which the significacion lost /
though christ him selfe had institute it / we coude not
obserue with out a false faith & with out hurtynge of oure soules?
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likelyhode . . .
now. Cf. CWM 6/1.151/32–35.
iustifienge of faith
. . . Paule and Ihon. Cf. Rom. 3.28 and 1 John 5.4. For other references to Rom. 3.28,
cf. [commentary notes to O1v, “iustifienge of faith in christes bloude”; O3v, “He teacheth . . . werkes”; Q2, “fayth only iustifyeth vs”; Q2v, “what faith it is that iustifyeth vs”; Q5, “S. Augustine answereth”; Q5v, “faith only iustifieth”; Q8, “we . . . dedes”]. In
Luther's practice, the key to all the biblical books is to grasp
Christ's utterly gratuitous work and. gift of salvation as this is
formulated in texts like Rom. 1.16–17, 3.21–26, 5.6–11, or
John 1.14–17, 3.16–17. Statements and
illustrations of this conviction are found in Luther's Brief Instruction on What to Look for and Expect in the
Gospels, 1521 (WA 10/1/1.8–18; LW 35.117–24) and his
1522 Preface to the NT, [M4, “Tindale was confederatt with Luther” and commentary note]. The
principle of justification by faith is central to Mammon, Obedience, and Tyndale's testimony at his trial.
the scripture wolde
be easye. Cf. CWM 8/1.337/15. For another assertion
that a proper explanation of Baptism would make Scripture clear to the
believer, cf. 1 John
A5v. T0 claim that Scripture is easily understood if
one only grasps the central truth of its message is to voice a
fundamental Reformation conviction. In Luther's concise phrasing,
Scripture should be sui ipsius interpres, in Assertio omnium articulorum, 1520 (WA 7.97/23;
not in LW).
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And finally to rocke vs a slepe with all / he saith / that
he shall
neuer spede wel / that wil seke in the scripture whether our
prelates
teach vs a true faith / though ten preach ech
contrary to other in one daye. And yet christ for all his
miracles sendeth vs to the scripture. And for all Paules
miracles / the Iewes studied the scripture the diligenterly
/ to se whether it were as he saide or no. How
be it he meaneth / that soch can not spede wel because the
prelates will burne them excepte M. More helpe them and make
them forswere christ before hande.
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neuer . . .
faith. Cf. CWM 6/1.152/33–35.
christ . . .
scripture. Cf. John 5.39.
Paules . . . no.
Cf. Acts 17.11.
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