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Luke 20:16

Weymouth NT

He will come and put these vine-dressers to death, and give the vineyard to others.« »God forbid!« exclaimed the hearers.

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When vintage-time approached, he sent his servants to the vine-dressers to receive his share of the grapes;

»He will put the wretches to a wretched death,« was the reply, »and will entrust the vineyard to other vine-dressers who will render the produce to him at the vintage season.«

So the king's anger was stirred, and he sent his troops and destroyed those murderers and burnt their city.

What, therefore, will the owner of the vineyard do?« »He will come and put the vine-dressers to death,« they said; »and will give the vineyard to others.«

But as for those enemies of mine who were unwilling that I should become their king, bring them here, and cut them to pieces in my presence.'«

»So they turned him out of the vineyard and murdered him. What then will the owner of the vineyard do to them?«

Then, throwing off all reserve, Paul and Barnabas said, »We were bound to proclaim God's Message to you first. But since you spurn it and judge yourselves to be unworthy of the Life of the Ages–well, we turn to the Gentiles.

I ask then, Has God cast off His People? No, indeed. Why, I myself am an Israelite, of the posterity of Abraham and of the tribe of Benjamin.

I ask, however, »Have they stumbled so as to be finally ruined?« No, indeed; but by their lapse salvation has come to the Gentiles in order to arouse the jealousy of the descendants of Israel;

Do we then by means of this faith abolish the Law? No, indeed; we give the Law a firmer footing.

No, indeed; let us hold God to be true, though every man should prove to be false. As it stands written, »That Thou mayest be shown to be just in the sentence Thou pronouncest, and gain Thy cause when Thou contendest.«

No indeed; for in that case how shall He judge all mankind?)

Are we therefore to sin because we are no longer under the authority of Law, but under grace? No, indeed!

No, indeed; how shall we who have died to sin, live in it any longer?

Did then a thing which is good become death to me? No, indeed, but sin did; so that through its bringing about death by means of what was good, it might be seen in its true light as sin, in order that by means of the Commandment the unspeakable sinfulness of sin might be plainly shown.

What follows? Is the Law itself a sinful thing? No, indeed; on the contrary, unless I had been taught by the Law, I should have known nothing of sin as sin. For instance, I should not have known what covetousness is, if the Law had not repeatedly said, »Thou shalt not covet.«

What then are we to infer? That there is injustice in God?

Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take away the members of Christ and make them the members of a prostitute? No, indeed.

But if while we are seeking in Christ acquittal from guilt we ourselves are convicted of sin, Christ then encourages us to sin! No, indeed.

God, however, is only one. Is the Law then opposed to the promises of God? No, indeed; for if a Law had been given which could have conferred Life, righteousness would certainly have come by the Law.

But as for me, God forbid that I should glory in anything except the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, upon which the world is crucified to me, and I am crucified to the world.




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