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🗓️ 19 October 2022
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Martin Luther revered the whole book of Psalms, but there was one psalm that the German Reformer cherished most of all. Today on our journey back through the archives, Dr. Stephen Nichols and Dr. W. Robert Godfrey discuss Luther's "own beloved psalm."
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0:00.0 | Well, it's still October, and we are still celebrating Reformation Month. |
0:04.8 | We're going back to the archives of 2017, and we were pulling another episode. |
0:10.0 | It was so much fun to be there in Germany and visit those Luther sites, and I wanted |
0:14.1 | to share that with you, so I hope you enjoy this episode on Martin Luther and the Reformation. |
0:20.4 | Thanks so much for listening. |
0:23.0 | Welcome back to another episode of Five Minutes in Church History. |
0:25.7 | We are making our way through Luther's life, and we are once again on location in Vittenberg. |
0:31.6 | We are in Luther's town, and I have a very special guest with me. |
0:35.4 | I have Dr. W. Robert Godfrey, and we are here for a conference together, actually in Vittenberg. |
0:43.2 | And Dr. Godfrey, we've been talking about Luther's writings in particular this week on |
0:48.0 | Five Minutes, and a very important set of those writings would be Luther's commentaries. |
0:54.0 | Now among the many biblical books, what were some of the key biblical books for Luther |
0:57.6 | that he lectured on and wrote commentaries on? |
1:01.2 | Well, particularly in his formative years, he looked at the Psalms, at Romans, at Galatians, |
1:06.9 | at Hebrews, and you can imagine what a wonderful preparation that is to be a reformer, what |
1:12.2 | better books could you spend time with? |
1:14.9 | And then later in his life, he wrote a very long commentary on Genesis. |
1:19.2 | So Luther's moving through the whole Bible, but those are books that were particular |
1:23.9 | and important to him. |
1:25.8 | Let's hone in on one of his treatises within one of those commentaries. |
1:30.6 | This would be his commentary on Psalm 118. |
1:35.2 | Luther wrote this in 1530. |
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