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Concordia Triglotta—English: The Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church is unavailable, but you can change that!

English text of one of the most important documents of Lutheran thought. Features the Dau/Bente edition of the Lutheran Confessions.

shouldest ordain elders in every city [and afterwards calls these persons bishops]. Then he adds: A bishop must be the husband of one wife. Likewise Peter and John call themselves elders [or priests] 1 Pet. 5, 1; 2 John 1. And he then adds: But that afterwards one was chosen to be placed over the rest, this was done as a remedy for schism, lest each one by attracting [a congregation here or there] to himself might rend the Church of Christ. For at Alexandria, from Mark the evangelist to the bishops
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