From Book of Concord

Today’s Treasury reading from the BOC was from the Apology. This section is rich, but it is very easy to lose the gems because Melanchthon obviously needed a good editor and didn’t have one! 

My favorites:

If anyone should cast away love, even though he has great faith, he does not keep his faith. For he does not keep the Holy Spirit. Article V:98

Justification is not the approval of a particular work, but of the entire person. Article V:101

Neither is justification even to be dreamed of without Christ as the Atonement. Article V:101

The adversaries corrupt very many passages, because they bring to them their own opinions and do not derive the meaning from the passages themselves. Article V:103