On this episode of Five Minutes in Church History, we are returning to our good friend, Martin Luther,

and his lectures and commentaries on the Book of Galatians.

Luther loved the epistle of Paul to the Galatians.

At one point, he called it my Katie.

That's a compliment that goes two ways.

It goes both to his wife and it goes to this epistle.

It is Paul's epistle of liberty.

And we can understand why Luther loved it so much.

He lectured on it first in October 1516 through the spring of 1517.

Now you know that he started those lectures one year before he posted his 95thesis.

So of course there's a connection to Luther being immersed in Galatians as he is looking what is happening in the church.

He lectured again on this epistle in 1519.

And those lectures were published as a commentary.

In the dedication to the 1519 edition, Luther says,

in these days, most distinguished serves referring to the people that he's dedicated it to,

I have babbled forth some trifling observations about indulgences.

Well, that's Luther's classic understatement of the 95thesis.

He goes on to say, for in my remarkable stupidity and very serious blundering,

I was measuring sins and errors by the standard of God's commandment and the most holy gospel of Christ.

Well, that's classic.

Luther dripping with sarcasm saying what we have here is a clash.

A clash between the words of the Pope and the words of the church on the one hand

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