We cannot approve this law about celibacy that the adversaries defend, because it conflicts with divine and natural law and disagrees with the very canons of the councils. It is clearly superstitious and dangerous. It produces countless scandals, sins, and corruption of public morals.—Ap XXIII:6
I'm interested in reading more from the same source. The abbreviations used here are not familiar to me. Could you provide a more complete citation?
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Apology to the Augsburg Confession, Article 23, paragraph 6 (according to *Concordia: A Reader’s Edition*)
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