“With this Word you can strengthen your conscience and say: If a hundred thousand devils, together with all fanatics, should rush forward, crying, How can bread and wine be the body and blood of Christ? etc. I know that all spirits and scholars together are not as wise as the Divine Majesty in His little finger. Now here stands the Word of Christ: Take, eat; this is My body; Drink it, all of you; this is the new testament in My blood, etc. Here we abide, and would like to see those who will constitute themselves His masters, and make it different from what He has spoken. It is true, indeed, that if you take away the Word or regard it without the words, you have nothing but mere bread and wine. But if the words remain with them, as they shall and must, then, in virtue of the same, it is truly the body and blood of Christ. For as the lips of Christ say and speak, so it is, as He can never lie or deceive.” – Martin Luther, The Large Catechism
These words of Luther are my favorite of his on the Lord’s Supper. These words get right to the heart of why this anthology was put together. There are a hundred thousand devils and others trying to get Christians to doubt that in the Holy Supper Christ gives us His very body and blood to eat and to drink.
This book is intended to give you a good overview of what many of our fathers in the faith taught on the Lord’s Supper. Other texts could have been selected, but offerings here are presented in the hope that you would grow and be strengthened in your understanding of the Lord’s Supper, and delight more and more in the magnificent treasure that it truly is for you.
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