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Let us therefore hold it for certain and firmly established that the soul can do without everything except the word of God, without which none at all of its wants are provided for. But, having the word, it is rich and wants for nothing.

Martin Luther Concerning Christian Liberty (The Freedom of a Christian)

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Concerning Christian Liberty, 1520 — inward man / Word alone
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  1. Early inward-man argument: only the Gospel Word justifies and supplies the soul.

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