Reumann turns to Krauth for a summary of AC V:
As one ninteenth-century theologian, Charles Porterfield Krauth, summed up the import of Article 5 of the Augsburg Confession: "there is such a thing as the ministry," it is "an institution" which did not "expire with the apostleship," but is "founded by authority," "exists by necessity," and "is intended to be permanent"' this ministry is "instituted by God" with its functions "to teach the Gospel" and "impart the Sacraments"; this ministry, which no man enters without a call of God mediated through the church, is "the ordinary medium by which men, led by the Word and Sacraments to a living faith, obtain salvation." (p. 236)
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