Mondays with Marty

This week for Mondays with Marty, Luther explains the importance of knowing the original languages of Scripture:

“In proportion then as we value the gospel, let us zealously hold to the languages.  For it was not without purpose that God caused his Scriptures to be set down in these two languages alone – the Old Testament in Hebrew, the New in Greek.  Now if God did not despise them but chose them above all others for his Word, then we too ought to honor them above all others. . . . Let us be sure of this: we will not long preserve the gospel without the languages.  The languages are the sheath in which this sword of the Spirit is contained; they are the casket in which this jewel is enshrined; they are the vessel in which this wine is held.”


HT: Ray Ortlund, Gospel Coalition