Old Lutheran Quote of the Day

What did the church do about this? It had to defend against the heretics the faith regarding the article of the Trinity, the faith which the Holy Spirit had revealed in the Scriptures, which the apostles had handed down, and the martyrs had corroborated. But the Church could not do this with words of Scripture, because of the insolence of the heretics, who with their guile played games with all the Scriptural terms, so that these words could not be retained or used in debate; and meanwhile they were taking captive the minds of the simple with their lies. Therefore terms had to be sought by which the doctrine itself, as handed down in the Scripture concerning this article, could be expressed in a proper way, so that the heretics could not play games with some sneaky interpretation. - Martin Chemnitz, Loci Theologici, I:71