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Commissioned in 1993, this translation of The Book of Concord brings a new generation of scholarship and sensitivities to bear on the foundational texts of Lutheran identity. The fifth English translation since 1851, this edition succeeds that edited by Theodore Tappert published in 1959 by Fortress Press. A review of the text in light of a mountain of new scholarship and other factors dictated...

forgiveness of sins.120 How will their people, who have heard nothing about this faith and who assume that they must doubt whether or not they have obtained the forgiveness of sins, sustain themselves when dying? [120] Furthermore, the gospel, that is, the promise that sins are remitted freely on account of Christ, must be retained in the church of Christ. Those who teach nothing about the faith that we are discussing completely destroy that gospel. [121] But the scholastics do not teach a single
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