Old Lutheran Quote of the Day

I have cited a good many statements from the ancients on this subject. First, that there might be public testimony that in our churches when we explain this doctrine [the communication of majesty] we have not given birth to any new ideas, nor have we introduced into the church any strange, monstrous, erroneous, dangerous, scandalous expressions or forms of speech; but rather we are simply imitating the thinking and language of the ancient orthodox church in a reverent and devout way. - Martin Chemnitz, *Two Natures* pp. 302, 303