General Comments:

The importance of this Commentary on Galatians for the history of Protestantism is very great. It presents like no other of Luther’s writings Description: the central thought of Christianity, the justification of the sinner for the sake of Christ’s merits alone. We have permitted in the final revision of the manuscript many a passage to stand which seemed weak and ineffectual when compared with the trumpet tones of the Latin original. But the essence of Luther’s lectures is there. May the reader accept with indulgence where in this translation we have gone too far in modernizing Luther’s expression—making him “talk American.” “The lectures which are preserved in the works herewith submitted to the American public were delivered in 1531.... A German Publication History: translation by Justus Menius appeared in the Wittenberg Edition of Luther’s writings, published in 1539. ” This translation and condensation published 1949