Now, what need is there to go through all of Latomus, point by point, since what has been said thoroughly refutes his entire position and confirms mine? I have sufficiently shown that his whole work consists of begging the question, for he does not want to understand my use of “sin” except in his own sense. With deliberate villainy, he distorts both my statements and those of all the fathers, making out that what they say simply of sin is said against sin under grace, or applying what is said of the sin of the whole to, as I might say, the sin of the part. He does this because he, together with his sophists, has never recognized what grace and sin, law and gospel, Christ and man are. He who wishes to discuss sin and grace, law and gospel, Christ and man, in a Christian way, necessarily discourses for the most part on nothing else than God and man in Christ….
Martin Luther | Luther’s Works, Vol. 32: Career of the Reformer II, ed. Jaroslav Jan Pelikan, Hilton C. Oswald, and Helmut T. Lehmann, vol. 32 (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1999), 257
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