Saturday, May 14, 2011

Luther Quotes

First, regard as an unmovable rock that the New Testament knows of no priest who is or can be anointed externally. If there are such, they are imitators and idols. There is neither an example nor a command nor a simple word in Gospels or epistles of the apostles in support of this variety. Their established and brought in a league by a kind of human invention of which Jeroboam once was guilty in Israel's history [1 Kings 12:32ff]. For a priest, especially in the New Testament, was not made that was born. He was created, not ordained. He was born not indeed of flesh, but through a birth of the Spirit, by water and the Spirit in the washing of regeneration [John 3:5ff, Titus 3:5ff]. Indeed, all Christians are priests and all priests are Christian.” ML, Concerning the Ministry, LW, AE, 40:19

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