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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians by Martin Luther: think highly of the Law and call it "holy, just, and good." (Romans 7:12) The
Law is of no comfort to a stricken conscience. Therefore it should not be
allowed to rule in our conscience, particularly in view of the fact that Christ
paid so great a price to deliver the conscience from the tyranny of the Law.
Let us understand that the Law and Christ are impossible bedfellows. The
Law must leave the bed of the conscience, which is so narrow that it cannot
hold two, as Isaiah says, chapter 28, verse 20.
Only Paul among the apostles calls the Law "the elements of the world, weak
and beggarly elements, the strength of sin, the letter that killeth," etc. The
other apostles do not speak so slightingly of the Law. Those who want to be
first-class scholars in the school of Christ want to pick up the language of
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