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p;amp;apos;s laws; but their conscience has no satisfaction or peace in them; but only becomes continually worse, until Christ comes with his Word of grace. He is the one, and he alone, who makes satisfaction, delivers from sin and death, gives peace and fulness of joy, and does it all of his own free will, gratuitously, against and above all hope and presumption, that we may know that the Gospel is devised and bestowed, not through our own merit, but out of pure grace. * 13 * Finally, you see in this Gospel that Christ, though he held Gospel poverty in the highest esteem and was not anxious about the morrow, as he teaches in Matthew 6:34, had still some provisions, as the two hundred shillings, the five loaves and the two fishes; in order that we may learn how such poverty and freedom from care consist not in having nothing at all, as the barefooted fanatics and monks profess, and yet they themselves do not hold to it; but it consists in a free heart and a poor spirit. For even Abraham and Isaac had great possessions, and yet they lived without worry and in poverty, like the best Christians do. No Commentary on these verses is yet included This module currently includes commentaries on: I. Gen 4:8-9:29 II. Ps 82 III. the Sermon on the Mount (Matt 5-7) IV. the Magnificat (Luke 1:46-Luke 1:55) V. Galatians Also included are Prefaces to: I. Old Testament (at Gen.0.0) II. Job III. Psalms IV. Proverbs V. Ecclesiastes VI. the Prophetic Books (not including Lamentations) VII. the New Testament (at Matt.0.0) VIII. Acts IX. all Epistles X. Revelations Lastly, this module contains sermons/commentaries from Luther's Church Postil. These mostly cover the readings from the standard 1-year lectionary, including: I. Matthew: {Mt 1:25 linked from Lk 2:21} 2:1-12 {Mt 2:13-23 linked from Lk 2:39} 4:1-11 {links to Mk 1:12-13, Lk 4:1-13} {Mt 4:18-22 linked from Lk 5:1-11} Mt 5-7 postil entries not included because of the more complete commentary on the Se