The adversaries base justification on love because they everywhere teach and require the righteousness of the Law. We cannot deny that love is the Law's highest work. Human wisdom gazes at the Law and seeks justification in it. So the scholastic doctors, great and talented men, proclaim love as the Law's highest work and base justification on this work. Deceived by human wisdom, they did not look upon the uncovered, but upon the veiled face of Moses, just like the Pharisees, philosophers, and followers of Muhammad. But we preach the foolishness of the Gospel, in which another righteousness is revealed: for Christ's sake as the Atonement, we are counted righteous when we believe that God has been reconciled to us for Christ's sake. Neither are we ignorant about how far distant this teaching is from the judgement of reason and the Law. Nor are we ignorant that the Law's teaching about love makes a much greater show. For it is wisdom. But we are not ashamed of the Gospel's foolishness. We defend this truth for the sake of Christ's glory and ask Christ, by His Holy Spirit, to help up so that we may be able to make this clear and obvious.
~BOC, AP, V (III), 108-109
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