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See, this is what it means to make and follow other gods; it means to worship gods whom you do not know, because you do not feel or understand that in the place of the true God you worship a notion and an idol. Nor do you notice how uncertain you are in that worship, and how you think or know nothing concerning the true God, since you think about Him without His Word. But He cannot be known or thought of except throu

And so you see that it is the fulfillment of the First Commandment to have God be the praise, the boasting, the bragging, the pride of our heart in the time both of prosperity and of adversity. For this it is to have God in truth.

And so you see that it is the fulfillment of the First Commandment to have God be the praise, the boasting, the bragging, the pride of our heart in the time both of prosperity and of adversity. For this it is to have God in truth.

Now this sounds as though he wanted them to wage the war with their own strength. But these things happen that there may be room for faith and the divine promise and that God may not be openly tempted. For even if God creates, nourishes, preserves, and governs all the sons of men, nevertheless He does not want any to be idle but gives them members with which they should bear, cherish, and govern one another, whereby

“He knows your way” is a Hebrew idiom, as in Ps. 1:6: “The Lord knows the way of the righteous,” and in Matt. 25:12: “Verily I say to you, I do not know you.” This is a word of outstanding comfort. By it faith is aroused. In German we say it Er nam sichs an; he recognized it and took care of it....For when you demonstrate that you know or do not know somebody, then you will be said to know or not to know him.