Commentary on Galatians, Luther

"Luther had a very sharp and satirical style; but his Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians was his favorite work.

His favorite doctrine was justification by faith alone, and not by works, moral, legal, or evangelical; but we must do him the justice to observe, that he perpetually inculcated the absolute necessity of good works. According to him, a man is justified only by faith; but he cannot be justified without works; and where those works are not to be found, there is assuredly n...