# “This doctrine can never be discussed and taught enough” by Martin Luther

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- Published: 2019-02-11T12:00:43-06:00
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“We have taken it upon ourselves in the Lord’s name to lecture on this Epistle of
Paul to the Galatians once more. This is not because we want to teach something 
new or unknown, for by the grace of God Paul is now very well known to you.

But it is because, as I often warn you, there is a clear and present danger that
the devil may take away from us the pure doctrine of faith and may substitute for
it the doctrines of works and of human traditions. It is very necessary, therefore,
that this doctrine of faith be continually read and heard in public.

No matter how well known it may be or how carefully learned, the devil, our adversary,
who prowls around and seeks to devour us (1 Peter 5:8), is not dead. Our flesh also
goes on living. Besides, temptations of every sort attack and oppress us on every
side.

Therefore this doctrine can never be discussed and taught enough. If it is lost 
and perishes, the whole knowledge of truth, life, and salvation is lost and perishes
at the same time. But if it flourishes, everything good flourishes—religion, true
worship, the glory of God, and the right knowledge of all things and of all social
conditions.

To keep from doing nothing, we shall begin again where we broke off, according to
the saying: ‘When a man has finished, he is just beginning.'”

–Martin Luther, [_Luther’s Works, Vol. 26: Lectures on Galatians, 1535, Chapters 1-4_](https://amzn.to/2N15Cs7)(
ed. Jaroslav Jan Pelikan, Hilton C. Oswald, and Helmut T. Lehmann; vol. 26; Saint
Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1999), 26: 3.

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