The lesson refers to grace and mercy...
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The lesson refers to grace and mercy being on God's holy ones (v. 9). Only by grace and mercy can the saints be saints. Martin Luther put it this way once: "But we say that the real saints of Christ must be good, stout sinners who are not ashamed to pray the Lord's Prayer... They are not called saints because they are without sins or have become saintly through works... But they become holy though a foreign holiness, namely through that of the Lord Christ..." (What Luther Says, p. 1247).
Late nineteenth-century American journalist Ambrose Bierce says the same thing with a little more pizzazz: Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.
Late nineteenth-century American journalist Ambrose Bierce says the same thing with a little more pizzazz: Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.
