Note 1473 — Chapter XXVIII

Article 12. “Werke,” Weim. ed., 30, 3, p. 181; Erl. ed., 24², p. 343. G. Kawerau adds, when quoting this passage (Möller’s “Lehrb. der KG.,” 3³, p. 104), “It is here, therefore, that the ‘Communion of Saints’ begins to become Luther’s confessional Church.”—The Articles of Schwabach, which were sent by Luther to the Elector after the Conference of Marburg (above, vol. iii., p. 381), probably on Oct. 7, 1529, were mainly intended to oppose the Zwinglians. It is when repudiating them, as non-Christians, that Luther puts forward the above conception of the Church.