27 August 2009

Old Lutheran Quote of the Day

Everything that God makes he creates for life. He created things that they might be, and he called into being things that didn’t exist, as if they did [Rom. 4:17]. This means that life belongs to God’s purpose. But death has been introduced into the world through the devil’s envy, and on this account the devil is called the author of death. For what else does Satan do than seduce from true religion, provoke sedition, cause wars, pestilence, etc., and bring about every evil? -- Blessed Martin Luther, Table Talk 1379 (1532)

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