Luther’s Works: the yank variation, released through Concordia and citadel Press among 1955 and 1986, includes fifty-five volumes. those are a variety representing simply a couple of 3rd of Luther’s works within the Latin and German of the traditional Weimar variation, no longer together with the German Bible. one of the minor prophets, Jonah and Habakkuk have been evidently of designated value for Martin Luther. The detailed remedy accorded those is matched purely relating to another of the minor prophets— Zechariah (Vol.20). as well as the standard Latin lectures, Luther further renowned types within the demeanour of a German observation, rigorously written out expressly for revealed ebook. it truly is transparent why Luther gave those prophets the opportunity to talk to a much broader viewers: Jonah and Habakkuk have a message for all of humankind. Of Jonah, Luther says, "[Jonah] teaches us to not depression of the fruit of the Gospel, irrespective of how badly apparently to be with out fruit and prophet. … i'm tempted to assert that no apostle or prophet, now not even Christ Himself, played and complete with a unmarried sermon the good stuff Jonah did." As for Habakkuk-- regrettably restricted to the darkish because the time of the apostles—Luther finds that he truly holds a principal position in Paul's theology with the passage: "The righteous shall dwell by way of his faith." Luther the following uncovers the jewels embedded within the traditions of those prophets, now contained during this quantity for all to witness.