But to adequately bring these together, and to present them in a holistic way - that remained for later reformers. He reproduces in a colourful way what the guidelines of Scripture are. In that sense, Luther is timeless, for he was a prophet of God. The gospel of God never changes. To be sure, he like others, needed the correction which the Lord gave through Calvin and other Reformers.
Works serve the neighbour and supply the proof that faith is living.
Luther basically identified the distinction of German mysticism with Pauline anthropology, see M. Brecht, 408. The second table, which Luther associates with the body, is used by the Spirit to work sanctification in the life of the believer. Speaking loosely, one might say that Luther ties the first table of the law to justification, and the second to sanctification.