[1491] Schlaginhaufen, “Aufzeichnungen,” p. 96.
[1492] Ellinger, ibid., p. 371.
[1493] Ibid., p. 372.
[1494] Cp. the passage in the reprint of the “Variata,” “Corp. ref.,” 26, p. 357, with the same in the original Confession (“Symbol. Bücher,”10 p. 41). Our quotations are from Loofs, “Dogmengesch.,”4 p. 864 f.: “In view of the new idea of the Eucharist which he gradually adopted, we cannot doubt that Melanchthon was anxious to leave an open door for future agreement with the Swiss.” Thus Kolde, “Symbol. Bücher”10, Introd., p. xxvi.
[1495] Selnecker, “Hist. narratio de Luthero, postremæ ætatis Elia,” Lipsiæ, 1575, Fol. H2: “Landgravium concepisse optimam spem de voluntate ipsorum et accessione ad unanimem Augustanam Confessionem amplectendam, si modo improbatio et damnatio sententiæ ipsorum, quam hactenus habuissent, eximeretur, atque hoc ipsum clementer perscripsisse ad D. Philippum et petiisse, exemplaria alia, omissis illis particulis, imprimi.” Cp. Kolde, ibid., p. xxv. n. 3. Selnecker took Melanchthon’s part in the theological controversies of his day.
[1496] “Corp. ref.,” 26, p. 367 seq.
[1497] Kolde (“Symbol. Bücher”10, Einleitung, p. xxv.) characterises the enlarging of Articles v. and xx., the stress laid on the necessity of Penance and good works, and also Article xviii. (De libero arbitrio) as “real alterations, or at any rate a watering down of their dogmatic character.” “The chief stumbling-block proved, not indeed then, but later, to be the wording of Article x. on the Supper.... That it was here a question of a real change (in the doctrine of the Eucharist) should never have been denied.”
[1498] Loofs, ibid., p. 865 seq.
[1499] Ibid., p. 905.
[1500] See Janssen, “Hist. of the German People” (Eng. Trans., 6, p. 147).