Luther for Advent 1 – Matthew 21:1-9
Church Postils If you believe in Christ and in His advent, it is the highest praise and thanks to God to be holy. if you recognize, love, and magnify His grace and work in you, and cast aside and condemn self and the works of self, then you are a Christian. Faith is of the nature that [...]

Salomo Glassius Postill
Salomo Glassius (1593-1656) was Johann Gerhard’s favorite student, table companion, and successor at Jena. With Gerhard he edited the Ernestian Bible (Weimar Bible), an enormous Lutheran study Bible from the age of Orthodoxy. Here is part of his postill: Evangelicorum et epistolicorum textuum: qui dominicis et festis in ecclesia tractar solent, exegesis … Pars II. A [...]

Selnecker Postills
Here are some Latin postills by Nicolaus Selnecker: Epistolarum et Evangeliorum dispositio, quae in diebus Festis B. Mariae semper virginis & S. Apostolorum usitate in ecclesia proponuntur et explicantur. This covers the feasts of Mary and of the Apostles. Evangeliorum Et Epistolarum Dominicalium, Quae In Ecclesia Christi proponi solent, explicationis pars tertia. A die solenni Resurrectionis, usque [...]

Latin Gerhard Postills
Google Books has been scanning books that are older and older. Now you can read full scans of 17th century books, such as: D. Joannis Gerhardi homiliae XXXVI seu meditationes breves diebus dominicis atque festis accomodatis. These are brief meditations on the Gospels for most of the Sundays of the historic church year. Sacrarum homiliarum in pericopas [...]

Trinity 23 – Matthew 22:15-22
In the Name of the Father and of the + Son and of the Holy Spirit There seems to be a contradiction between Saint Paul’s admonition in the Epistle and Jesus’ words to the Pharisees in today’s Holy Gospel. Paul writes to the church in Phillipi: our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly [...]