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Logos which was identical with it and thus could transcend the limitations of his
particular existence through his love of fate.” “Ancient Scepticism and the Contra
Academicos,” 4.
74. Boyle, Rhetoric and Reform, 53–56.
75. WA 18:605.32; LW 33:24.
76. WA 18:719.9–12; LW 33:190.
77. WA 18:614.12–35; LW 33:37.
78. WA 18:712.35–37; LW 33:181.
79. WA 18:634.21–635.7; LW 33:64–65.
80. Robert W. Jenson, “An Ontology of Freedom in the De Servo Arbitrio of Luther,”
Modern Th eology 10, no. 3 (July 1994): 248; Rupp, Luther and Erasmus, 18.
81. WA 18:635.17–22; LW 33:65–66.
82. WA 18:743.35–744.2; LW 33:227.
83. McSorley, Luther: Right or Wrong, 339.
84. WA 18:653.14–24; LW 33:90–91.
85. On this point, see McSorley, Luther: Right or Wrong, 336–38.
86. Hypognosticon 2.11.20, in Migne, Patrologia Latina 45:1632. For a comprehensive
discussion of the origin of this analogy, see Marjorie O’Rourke Boyle, “Luther’s
Rider-gods: From the Steppe to the Tower,” Th e Journal of Religious History 13
(1985): 260–82.
87. Rupp, Righteousness of God, 277.
88. Hans Blumenberg, Th e Legitimacy of the Modern Age (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT
Press, 1989), 127–43.
89. Th is in the end is what Luther means by Christian liberty.
90. WA 18:685.5–31; LW 33:139–40.
91. Quoted in Albrecht Peters, “Verborgener Gott—Dreieiniger Gott: Beobachtungen
und Überlegungen zum Gottesverständnis Martin Luthers,” in Peter Manns,
Martin Luther: Reformator und Vater im Glauben (Stuttgart: Steiner, 1985), 74. See
also Marius, Martin Luther, 461.
92. WA 18:712.32–38; LW 33:181.
93. WA 18:708.37–38; LW 175.
94. Rupp, Luther and Erasmus, 19; McSorley, Luther: Right or Wrong, 340.
95. Milton raises the supreme question in Paradise Lost: if divine power is the sole
source of both good and evil, is Satan not himself then unjustly punished by God?
Indeed, might it not be the case that Satan is the victim rather than the victimizer,
a new Prometheus unjustly bound to his rock and tortured by a tyrannical Zeus?
96. WA 18:709.29–33; LW 33:176.
97. Rupp, Righteousness of God, 280.
98. WA 18:633.15–19; LW 33:62–63.
99. WA 18:706.22–32; LW 33:171–72.
100. Evangelion am Ersten Sontage ynn der fasten. Matthew 4. WA 17, ii, 192.
101. WA 18:615.31–33; LW 33:37–38.
102. WA 18:729.21–23; LW 33:206.
103. WA 18:750.5–10; LW 33:237.