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1. "Person" as used by Luther is systematically ambiguous, being used:

(1) in distinction from the work, or office, of a human being to mean the unity and wholeness of her or him in her or his being simply as a self coram Deo (In this first sense, "person" is very close in meaning to "conscience."); and (2) to mean the mask or role that a human being wears or plays in and before the world (coram mundo), thanks to her or his works or office, corresponding to the function she or he performs and behind which her or his naked being simply as a self coram Deo is hidden (It is in this second sense that "person" is used in the biblical expression that "God accepteth no man's person" (KJV, or NRSV, "God shows no partiality.")

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