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Martin Chemnitz

Martin Chemnitz

German Theologian

Born: Nov 9, 1522

Died: Apr 8, 1586

Christ Daily Faith First God Man

Related authors: Albert Schweitzer Dietrich Bonhoeffer Friedrich Schleiermacher Jakob Bohme Johann Kaspar Lavater Karl Rahner Paul Tillich Rudolf Otto

For we can affirm with a good conscience that we have, after reading the Holy Scripture, applied ourselves and yet daily apply ourselves to the extent that the grace of the Lord permits to inquiry into and investigation of the consensus of the true and purer antiquity. Martin Chemnitz

Nevertheless the meaning is not that the blessed bread which is divided, which is offered, and which the apostles received from the hand of Christ was not the body of Christ but becomes the body of Christ when the eating of it is begun. Martin Chemnitz

Christ Blessed Eating Divided Nevertheless Becomes Hand Offered Begun Bread Which Meaning Body Apostles Received

In the first place, our faith ought to lay hold on Christ as God and man in that nature by which He has been made our neighbor, kinsman, and brother. Martin Chemnitz

God Faith Nature Man Christ Made First Ought Our Neighbor Has-Been Brother Lay He First Place Been Hold Place Which

I am calling attention just to the main points of these tremendously important matters, which can be understood better by pious meditation than explained by human language. Martin Chemnitz

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