Here are a few sayings of Martin Luther about Jesus,
Gethsemane, sin, and death.
- "He is the Son of God, — the everlasting Righteousness! And
although He assumed our flesh and blood, His flesh and blood is altogether
sinless. Yet, since He took upon Himself foreign sin, namely that of all the
world, in order to atone for it, this sin of others so affected Him, filled
Him with such grief and anguish, and so terrified Him, that He began to
tremble and quake, confessing: 'My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto
death.'"[1]
- "Sin is so mighty that it can affect Jesus Christ, my Lord
and God, with the greatest grief, though it be not His own sin, but entirely
that of others."[2]
- "It is the most intolerable burden, because it so agitated
His innocent heart."[3]
- "He trembles at the mount of Olives, and feels such anguish
that His sweat is as it were great drops of blood; my sins, which He has
taken upon Himself, and whose heavy burden He has borne, have brought Him to
this."[4]
- “'My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death,' that is,
I am so full of anguish, that I could die of agony."[5]
- "Since He became a substitute for us all, and took upon
Himself our sins, that He might bear God’s terrible wrath against sin and
expiate our guilt, He necessarily felt the sin of the whole world, together
with the entire wrath of God, and afterwards the agony of death on account
of this sin."[6]
- "Thus the scene at the mount of Olives also serves for our consolation; it assures us that Christ has taken our sins upon Himself and rendered satisfaction for them. For how could we otherwise account for such fear and trembling?"[7]
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1. Martin Luther,
The Sufferings of Jesus Christ for Sinners: A Series of Sermons Delivered by
Martin Luther, Chris Rosebrough, ed., Kindle Edition,
Pirate Christian Media,
April 24, 2011, Kindle Locations
81-84.
2. Id., Kindle Locations
95-96.
3. Id., Kindle Locations 98-99.
4. Id., Kindle Locations
129-30.
5. Id., Kindle Location 47.
6. Id., Kindle Locations
54-56.
7. Id., Kindle
Locations 133-34.
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