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Luther on Fearless Faith

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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 4, 1865

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 25, No. 18.

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Luther on Fearless Faith

By R. F. C.

Luther gives a good comment or paraphrase on the parallel texts, "Fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul," and "Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do." Matt. x, 28; Luke xii, 4. Though he does not cite the texts, his allusion to them is clear. He wrote a book against monastic vows which he dedicated to his father. In this dedication he says, "What matters it to me if the pope should condemn me and put me to death! He cannot call me from the grave and kill me a second time."—Hist. Reformation, Vol. 3, p. 41. R. F. C.