# “Heavenly cunning” by Martin Luther

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- Published: 2009-03-05T15:44:53-06:00
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“Let us equip ourselves against the accusations of Satan with passages of Holy Scripture.
If he says, ‘Thou shalt be damned,’ you tell him: ‘No, for I fly to Christ who gave
Himself for my sins. In accusing me of being a damnable sinner, you are cutting 
your own throat, Satan. You are reminding me of God’s fatherly goodness toward me,
that He so loved the world that He gave His only-begotten Son that whosoever believeth
in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. In calling me a sinner, Satan,
you really comfort me above measure.’ With such heavenly cunning we are to meet 
the devil’s craft and put from us the memory of sin.”

–Martin Luther, _Commentary on St. Paul’s Epistle to the Galatians_, trans. Theodore
Conrad Graebner (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1939), 19.

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