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The three volumes in The Latin Works and The Correspondence of Huldreich Zwingli contain the English translations of some of Zwingli’s most important letters, sermons, poems, tracts, and more. Each entry contains an introduction to the work and the editors have provided helpful notes. Volume three includes one of Zwingli’s most powerful works: “Commentary on the True and False Religion.”

“sacramentum” for mystery [cf. Eph. 5:32]. For the word does not express that, nor do I know any Latin word which really gives the meaning of μυστήριον, because “arcanum” [secret] has a wider application than μυστήριον, and “sacrum” [sacred] is of somewhat narrower scope. So I am brought to see that a sacrament is nothing else than an initiatory ceremony or a pledging. For just as those who were about to enter upon litigation deposited a certain amount of money, which could not be taken away except
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