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Many people are not aware that Luther added the word “alone” to one of St. Paul’s writings (I can’t remember which one right now) so that it said “faith alone.”

Definitely not what St. Paul meant.


6 posted on 02/07/2015 10:25:19 AM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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Many people are not aware that Luther added the word “alone” to one of St. Paul’s writings (I can’t remember which one right now) so that it said “faith alone.”

Definitely not what St. Paul meant.

For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the Law. Romans 3:28

For if Abraham was justified by works, he had something to boast about; but not before God. Romans 4:2

Therefore having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Romans 5:1

Sure sounds like Paul meant it is by faith alone based on these verses.

These other guys believed this to be the case also.

And all these, having gained approval through their faith, did not receive what was promised, because God had provided something better for us, so that apart from us they should not be made perfect. Hebrews 11:39-40

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His great mercy has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4to obtain an inheritance which is imperishable and undefiled and will not fade away, reserved in heaven for you, 5who are protected by the power of God through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. 1 Peter 1:3-5

13 posted on 02/07/2015 11:00:26 AM PST by ealgeone
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Peter thought Paul meant it.


14 posted on 02/07/2015 11:01:48 AM PST by tbpiper
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Luther added the word “alone” to one of St. Paul’s writings

This is propaganda. There were other translations before Luther that had the word "alone" in the verse.

16 posted on 02/07/2015 11:05:38 AM PST by Tao Yin
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Many people are not aware that Luther added the word “alone” to one of St. Paul’s writings (I can’t remember which one right now) so that it said “faith alone.”




Previous translations of the word “alone” in Romans 3:28
Luther offers another line of reasoning in his “Open Letter on Translating” that many of the current Cyber-Catholics ignore, and most Protestants are not aware of:

Furthermore, I am not the only one, nor the first, to say that faith alone makes one righteous. There was Ambrose, Augustine and many others who said it before me.”

Now here comes the fun part in this discussion.

The Roman Catholic writer Joseph A. Fitzmyer points out that Luther was not the only one to translate Romans 3:28 with the word “alone.”

At 3:28 Luther introduced the adv. “only” into his translation of Romans (1522), “alleyn durch den Glauben” (WAusg 7.38); cf. Aus der Bibel 1546, “alleine durch den Glauben” (WAusg, DB 7.39); also 7.3-27 (Pref. to the Epistle). See further his Sendbrief vom Dolmetschen, of 8 Sept. 1530 (WAusg 30.2 [1909], 627-49; “On Translating: An Open Letter” [LuthW 35.175-202]). Although “alleyn/alleine” finds no corresponding adverb in the Greek text, two of the points that Luther made in his defense of the added adverb were that it was demanded by the context and that sola was used in the theological tradition before him.

Robert Bellarmine listed eight earlier authors who used sola (Disputatio de controversiis: De justificatione 1.25 [Naples: G. Giuliano, 1856], 4.501-3):

Origen, Commentarius in Ep. ad Romanos, cap. 3 (PG 14.952).

Hilary, Commentarius in Matthaeum 8:6 (PL 9.961).

Basil, Hom. de humilitate 20.3 (PG 31.529C).

Ambrosiaster, In Ep. ad Romanos 3.24 (CSEL 81.1.119): “sola fide justificati sunt dono Dei,” through faith alone they have been justified by a gift of God; 4.5 (CSEL 81.1.130).

John Chrysostom, Hom. in Ep. ad Titum 3.3 (PG 62.679 [not in Greek text]).

Cyril of Alexandria, In Joannis Evangelium 10.15.7 (PG 74.368 [but alludes to Jas 2:19]).

Bernard, In Canticum serm. 22.8 (PL 183.881): “solam justificatur per fidem,” is justified by faith alone.

Theophylact, Expositio in ep. ad Galatas 3.12-13 (PG 124.988).


To these eight Lyonnet added two others (Quaestiones, 114-18):

Theodoret, Affectionum curatio 7 (PG 93.100; ed. J. Raeder [Teubner], 189.20-24).

Thomas Aquinas, Expositio in Ep. I ad Timotheum cap. 1, lect. 3 (Parma ed., 13.588): “Non est ergo in eis [moralibus et caeremonialibus legis] spes iustificationis, sed in sola fide, Rom. 3:28: Arbitramur justificari hominem per fidem, sine operibus legis” (Therefore the hope of justification is not found in them [the moral and ceremonial requirements of the law], but in faith alone, Rom 3:28: We consider a human being to be justified by faith, without the works of the law). Cf. In ep. ad Romanos 4.1 (Parma ed., 13.42a): “reputabitur fides eius, scilicet sola sine operibus exterioribus, ad iustitiam”; In ep. ad Galatas 2.4 (Parma ed., 13.397b): “solum ex fide Christi” [Opera 20.437, b41]).

See further:

Theodore of Mopsuestia, In ep. ad Galatas (ed. H. B. Swete), 1.31.15.

Marius Victorinus (ep. Pauli ad Galatas (ed. A. Locher), ad 2.15-16: “Ipsa enim fides sola iustificationem dat-et sanctificationem” (For faith itself alone gives justification and sanctification); In ep. Pauli Ephesios (ed. A. Locher), ad 2.15: “Sed sola fides in Christum nobis salus est” (But only faith in Christ is salvation for us).

Augustine, De fide et operibus, 22.40 (CSEL 41.84-85): “licet recte dici possit ad solam fidem pertinere dei mandata, si non mortua, sed viva illa intellegatur fides, quae per dilectionem operatur” (Although it can be said that God’s commandments pertain to faith alone, if it is not dead [faith], but rather understood as that live faith, which works through love”). Migne Latin Text: Venire quippe debet etiam illud in mentem, quod scriptum est, In hoc cognoscimus eum, si mandata ejus servemus. Qui dicit, Quia cognovi eum, et mandata ejus non servat, mendax est, et in hoc veritas non est (I Joan. II, 3, 4). Et ne quisquam existimet mandata ejus ad solam fidem pertinere: quanquam dicere hoc nullus est ausus, praesertim quia mandata dixit, quae ne multitudine cogitationem spargerent [Note: [Col. 0223] Sic Mss. Editi vero, cogitationes parerent.], In illis duobus tota Lex pendet et Prophetae (Matth. XXII, 40): licet recte dici possit ad solam fidem pertinere Dei mandata, si non mortua, sed viva illa intelligatur fides, quae per dilectionem operatur; tamen postea Joannes ipse aperuit quid diceret, cum ait: Hoc est mandatum ejus, ut credamus nomini Filii ejus Jesu Christi, et diligamns invicem (I Joan. III, 23) See De fide et operibus, Cap. XXII, §40, PL 40:223.

Source: Joseph A. Fitzmyer Romans, A New Translation with introduction and Commentary, The Anchor Bible Series (New York: Doubleday, 1993) 360-361.

Even some Catholic versions of the New Testament also translated Romans 3:28 as did Luther. The Nuremberg Bible (1483), “allein durch den glauben” and the Italian Bibles of Geneva (1476) and of Venice (1538) say “per sola fede.”

http://beggarsallreformation.blogspot.com/2006/02/luther-added-word-alone-to-romans-328.html

25 posted on 02/07/2015 11:18:07 AM PST by RnMomof7
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Many people are not aware that Luther added the word “alone” to one of St. Paul’s writings (I can’t remember which one right now) so that it said “faith alone.”

Make that "many people PLUS ONE MORE" ROTFL!

29 posted on 02/07/2015 11:33:01 AM PST by Alex Murphy ("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
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“Definitely not what St. Paul meant.”

Perhaps this might clear up any confusion:

“For by grace you are saved THROUGH FAITH, and that not of yourselves, for it is the GIFT of God; NOT OF WORKS, that no man may glory.” Eph. 2:8-9


142 posted on 02/07/2015 4:46:31 PM PST by avenir (I'm pessimistic about man, but I'm optimistic about GOD!)
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Many people are not aware that Luther added the word “alone” to one of St. Paul’s writings (I can’t remember which one right now) so that it said “faith alone.”

If you are going to CLAIM such a LARGE change and even place it in QUOTES; then DOCUMENT your charge; lest the jury dismiss it as hearsay.

234 posted on 02/08/2015 3:58:06 AM PST by Elsie ( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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