Luther’s Works: the yankee version, released by way of Concordia and castle Press among 1955 and 1986, includes fifty-five volumes. those are a variety representing simply a few 3rd of Luther’s works within the Latin and German of the normal Weimar variation, no longer together with the German Bible. From Luther's thorough-going expositions of Psalms sixty eight, eighty two, ninety, a hundred and one, a hundred and ten, 111, and 112 it's glaring without delay that the Reformer had a willing perception into secular and ecclesiastical affairs as they existed in his time. however it is not any much less obvious that his realizing and his statements had a prophetic quality—a caliber which, between different features, makes his commentaries altogether undying of their value. "The commentaries within the current volume," writes editor Jaroslav Pelikan, "like these in quantity 12, are derived mostly from Luther's lecture room and from his pulpit; yet they don't all owe their starting place to his job as a professor and a preacher. This selection of commentaries additionally presents a few perception into Luther's paintings as an author." From explication of the spiritual and ethical lifetime of his day to the elucidation of changes among Jewish and Protestant interpretations of Psalm 111, Luther's literary breadth and intensity give you the reader with an unequalled forte of observation on those Psalms.