D. Martin Luthers Werke, Weimarer Ausgabe, Band 9 (1893), p. 42, Randbemerkungen zu den Sentenzen des Petrus Lombardus, at Luther's c. 3 = caput I of this edition
'love': the uncreated love as well. — 'but God': it is the ground. — 'let him love his brother': formally. — 'let him love': formally. — 'that same love': the love that is effective. — It is impossible to love that same love itself, since the object and the act of love would be the same. — 'the love by which he loves': not formally, but finally or efficiently. — 'clearly better known': he is expounding himself.
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D. Martin Luthers Werke, Weimarer Ausgabe, Band 9 (1893), p. 42, Randbemerkungen zu den Sentenzen des Petrus Lombardus, at Luther's c. 3 = caput I of this edition · pd
Glossing Lombard's own sentence, lemma by lemma, and cutting against him on this question even while he defends him on the other. The reason he gives is not either bench's: not that the habit is a distinct thing to be loved, but that a reflexive act would collapse the object into the act. He then saves the letter by re-reading the Master's preposition — dilectionem qua diligit, the love by which he loves, is to be taken not formally but finally or efficiently. ⛔ Anchored on caput I of this edition; Luther's own number is c. 3, because he keys to Migne's paragraphs and not to Quaracchi's capitula (raw/luther/PROVENANCE.md). The run is cut where the OCR stops being reliable rather than elided in the middle, so the Latin stays continuous.