Philip Melanchthon’s Birthday was February 16

If you don’t know who Melanchthon was (a good friend of Luther for one), read this on post on The Scriptorium.  By the way, this blog gets my vote for the coolest looking blog.

Quoting Melanchthon:

Rightly oriented teachers are needed, therefore, to clarify and preserve the proper meaning of the words of the prophets and apostles. And such true teachers do not invent new or peculiar doctrines about God; instead, they stay close to the unadulterated meaning, which God himself has revealed through the words which are found in the writings of the prophets and apostles and in the creeds. The entire office of preaching, which God has ordained for public assemblies, is to present to the people these and no other writings, except the writings of the prophets and apostles, and the creeds, and thus unfold, as in a grammar, the true meaning of the words, what God is called, what created things are, and what such terms as body, spirit, person, law, sin, gospel, promise, faith, grace, justification, and worship mean. To learn the true meaning of the terms and writings is to recognize sublime wisdom and divine light.

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