Old Lutheran Quote of the Day

For Paul, in Romans 5, clearly distinguishes between "grace" and "the gift of grace," as grace and truth are distinguished in John 1. Both are indeed the gift of the Son of God, the Mediator. However, when Paul says that we are justified and saved by grace, he understand that grace which the Scriptures distinguish from the gift of grace, that is, he understands not our newness but the mercy of God, or the gratuitous acceptance. - Martin Chemnitz, *Examen* I:494