Note 17 — PART II
Reading edition
In his New Testament, Luther had rendered Romans iii, 28—in the Vulgate arbitramur hominem iustificari ex fide absque operibus legis—as follows: Wir halten, das der mensch gerecht werde on des gesetzes werke, allein durch den glauben. As there is nothing in the Latin or Greek corresponding to allein, the Papists charged him with falsifying scripture.