Note 1559 — Chapter XXVIII · (continued 2)
E. M. Lamond translation
Ibid., 14², p. 287. In the light of this we can better understand the words which occur quite early in a writing of Luther’s: “Non iusta agendo iusti efficimur, as Aristotle taught, but iusti fiendo et essendo operamur iusta.” To Spalatin, Oct. 19, 1516, “Briefwechsel,” 1, p. 64. See below, xxviii., 4.