[1473] Article 12. “Werke,” Weim. ed., 30, 3, p. 181; Erl. ed., 24², p. 343. G. Kawerau adds, when quoting this passage (Möller’s “Lehrb. der KG.,” 3³, p. 104), “It is here, therefore, that the ‘Communion of Saints’ begins to become Luther’s confessional Church.”—The Articles of Schwabach, which were sent by Luther to the Elector after the Conference of Marburg (above, vol. iii., p. 381), probably on Oct. 7, 1529, were mainly intended to oppose the Zwinglians. It is when repudiating them, as non-Christians, that Luther puts forward the above conception of the Church.
[1474] “Werke,” Erl. ed., 23, p. 252 ff., in the preface to his edition of these Creeds, and the “Te Deum,” 1538.
[1475] “Werke,” Weim. ed., 8, p. 117; “Opp. lat. var.,” 5, p. 505.
[1476] Scheel, ibid., p. 75.
[1477] Above, vol. iii., p. 21.
[1478] Vol. i., p. 58.
[1479] P. 459.
[1480] P. 440.
[1481] W. Köhler in his review of Kropatscheck (“Theol. Literaturztng.,” 1905, col. 453 ff.).
[1482] P. 459. For proofs that, in the Middle Ages, the Bible occupied its due position in the faith and life of Christians, cp. K. Holzhey, “Die Inspiration der hl. Schrift in den Anschauungen des MA.,” 1895.